Tag: storytelling

May 2025

https://theconversation.com/a-living-collective-study-shows-trees-synchronise-electrical-signals-during-a-solar-eclipse-255499?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=bylinecopy_url_button

“The spruce trees not only responded to the solar eclipse – they actively anticipated it, by synchronising their bioelectrical signals hours in advance.”

https://www.cfecfw.org.au/a-gold-card-could-be-lifesaving-for-kids-in-care-say-doctors-carers-and-young-advocates

“Prof Blythe highlighted how gaps in health information not only hinder treatment but cause further trauma. “Children are made to retell their stories to each new specialist. It’s retraumatising. If the government is the legal guardian, then it must act like a parent and ensure continuity of care.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-05/lauren-brincat-lock-up-newcastle-when-do-i-breathe-randwick/105212458

“Her aim? To use art to explore and respond to the ways we value care and wellbeing in our communities.”

https://theconversation.com/why-its-important-to-read-aloud-to-your-kids-even-after-they-can-read-themselves-256089?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=bylinecopy_url_button

“When you are reading to your child, they have your full attention, which also makes the time special.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/elifshafak/p/what-one-thousand-and-one-nights?

“Reading is, and has always been, an act of resilience.

Writing is, and has always been an act of resistance.”

Other

I’m reading Cassandra Speaks by Elizabeth Lesser. I listened to the podcast with Brene Brown. This TED talk again expressed the thing that troubles me. I know people are concerned about the respective issues we have with one another. The extreme divisiveness and righteousness. I can be the worst.

I shake my head when my social media feed reveals the political leanings of people I love as humans, but don’t agree with. It’s kept me off social media lately. I am not entirely avoiding it and still find myself expressing my standpoint with a like here and there. It’s a swamp for alienating people really, which is pretty unhelpful to the things that matter to me like learning and connection.

I’m glad I did that Theory of Enchantment course earlier this year. I am still practising and learning and have the three principles on my notice board to remind me each day.