The hoar frost in this picture isn’t in fact from this last bout of cold weather, but from last autumn – a layer of beauty on the top, would you believe it, of a car outside our house in Cirencester, caught in the morning light. What magnificence there is in nature in the smallest things… … Read more …
In talking to non psychotherapists about climate change and what we may have to offer, I find myself thinking about the ‘one foot in one foot out’ dance well known to psychotherapists in practice. This building of a witness position averts the flip-flop from denial to apathy/despair. But what we touched on in our talk … Read more …
In the background, with that response to Mary-Jayne now posted below, there have needless to say been some further interesting developments in recent days on the climate change front – with a view to the left of cooling steam I captured rising at dawn from a nuclear power station in Lyon, France. First, this morning, … Read more …
Mary-Jayne, in a comment to the last post, has asked an important question. If the game is up, and as a species we are toast, then what would I (as representative, I guess, of said species claiming, partly as therapist, to have something worthwhile to say) like to see happen in the time we have … Read more …
Some thoughts from a trip just concluded to Spain, and thinking also of the devastating fires in Australia. (The picture left is of storm clouds over Ronda, which we visited – yes, EasyJet CO2 – in Southern Spain last week, which is seeing the heaviest and longest-lasting rainfall in a very long time. Very odd, … Read more …
Very thoughtful reply – to which I shall also reply shortly – on climate change from the Grande Dame (sorry M-J – you’re not Grande at all, but very influential…) of Climate Change psychology, Mary-Jayne Rust. (Picture here is this time of the most gorgeous hoarfrosted spider’s web seen this month in the Cotswolds.) “I … Read more …
It’s a beautiful world… Trees, left, in Northumberland. But it’s a world we must not take for granted. German friends of mine, now in their early 60s, wrote in their Christmas letter of asking some older fellow countrymen what it was like in the late 1930s when everyone knew disaster was looming. “We just got … Read more …
Time, perhaps, to start adding some new thoughts, as we nearly enter 2009. First, although not sure whether and who will be following this, beware indeed the power of parental example. Picture left is of 21-year-old daughter Katharine (Katie to her friends, the full version to her Dad) packed up and ready to head to … Read more …
My name is Mark Brayne and I am a Blogger. An addict, clearly. But Dorie said she’d appreciate some final, final thoughts, so, unable to resist another tipple, here’s a first batch. Climate Change. Take a deep breath. The picture illustrates, from Dunkirk, the quandary we’re in. Oil refinery in the background – the real … Read more …
Beware, this is a long blog. Take a deep breath, jump in, but be prepared to navigate in manageable segments. Yes, the tent last night stayed dry inside, as did the sleeping gear, and I even dreamed of warm and snuggly sleeping bags. OK, I have had to wear my socks and expensive 100% waterproof … Read more …