community

A pink post-it note on the last page of The Tiger Who Came For tea book, that reads “Denouement, We return to the world forever changed”.

Reading 10 (October 2025)

October 26, 2025March 16, 2026
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour Image credit: Sam Villis on… Read More »Reading 10 (October 2025)

Fourth panel of the tiny zine. Left hand panel has a closer look at the head and shoulders of the tiny person, with big eyes and who is angrily pointing at the top edge, which is accidentally uneven and offset on every page. The right hand panel has the small person hiding their face in their hands in despair.

Reading 9 (October 2025)

October 17, 2025March 16, 2026
Reading

It’s not Sunday evening (it’s Friday evening) but I’ve had a bit of a tough… Read More »Reading 9 (October 2025)

On a plain background, photos of pairs of hands showing: rocks + scissors, paper + rock, scissors + paper.

Reading 8 (September 2025)

September 28, 2025March 16, 2026
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 30 minutes Image from Uncle John’s blog… Read More »Reading 8 (September 2025)

About a dozen people are standing in front of a huge aquarium, which is basically a whole wall of blue with large fish swimming past in it. You can only make out the silhouettes of the people, dark against the luminous blue background. A couple of them are filming on their phones, mirroring the deep blue of the tank.

Community is strength #2

August 11, 2025August 18, 2025
New stuff

Adrianna Tan, who I follow on Mastodon, posted something today that I want to remember.… Read More »Community is strength #2

Otto Scharmer's Theory U in diagram form. One loop labelled "social pathology (economies of destruction)" contains blaming, enacting violence and destroying. The other loop labelled "social emergence (economies of creation)" contains sensing, prototyping, creating.

Reading 5 (August 2025)

August 10, 2025March 16, 2026
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour 30 minutes Image credit: u-school… Read More »Reading 5 (August 2025)

A 2x2 matrix of discomfort x interest, but each quadrant is further divided into 2. Low discomfort + low interest: apathy / restore Low discomfort + high interest: plateau / flow High discomfort + low interest: resentment / grit High discomfort + high interest: burn out / growth

Reading 4 (July 2025)

July 20, 2025March 16, 2026
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour 15 minutes Credit: Stewarding Loss… Read More »Reading 4 (July 2025)

A bushy tomato plant grows out of a grow bag. It's laden with many green fruit, one branch already reddening to ripeness.

Community is strength #1

July 13, 2025August 18, 2025
New stuff

I was in the garden (fiddling with the plants, repotting, tidying, and so on) and… Read More »Community is strength #1

Selwyn Williams, wearing a checked shirt and a ricksack, standing in the sunshine and talking to someone out of shot.

Strength in love: a community movement for Wales

July 5, 2021October 19, 2024
Archive (old posts)

(Originally published in The Welsh Agenda #66, Spring / Summer 2021) A few months ago… Read More »Strength in love: a community movement for Wales