peace

Is the World becoming a better or worse place to be?

What do our newspapers say about our world?

Views on this topic are probably as numerous as there are people. Periodically I pick up a newspaper and look at the headlines as a barometer on prevailing attitudes.  I did this last weekend with London’s Evening Standard.

On the downside were headings relating to lies, accusations and tensions:

Fake paramedic treated more than a 100 people

Worst times on trains for 12 years but fares rise 3.1% – employees blamed

G20 summit tensions

It was not a good start to my review. However I went on to find the following headlines. Sadly they were further back in the paper as bad news seems to sell more papers than uplifting news. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Brexit: why is there so much anger?

 

On the evening that news was breaking of Mrs May, UK Prime Minister, agreeing to a draft Brexit deal, I was driving to see friends who live a 1.5 hour drive away. I listened to Mrs May’s speech outside Downing street and the immediate reaction on the journey out. On the drive back I listened to a late night chat show with members of the public giving their views.

What I noted was an overwhelming emotion of anger. All were angry – the extreme Remainers, the extreme Brexiteers and everything in between. How could all be angry with the same deal? Mrs May has an unenviable job of trying to draw people together to reach an agreement.

What I reflected on was that only four days ago on Remembrance Sunday, the national rhetoric was one of:

Remembering the past to create a better future.

As a nation have we learnt anything from the experiences of World War I and II and every conflict since then?

Wars are created because somebody has something that somebody else wants read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Remembrance Sunday: what is the value of remembering the past?

On Remembrance Sunday 2018 in the Tower of London around 10,000 candles were lit in the dry moat to remember those who fell in World War 1.

The event started with smoke drifting as in the battle fields of France.

A single flame was carried from the Tower. The flame was passed across the field, slowly the candles were lit to represent those who had fallen.

 

Eventually the whole Tower was circled with light. It was a moving display with the candle lighters creating shadows on the Tower walls like a tableau of soldiers in ‘no-mans land’ and haunting music was playing.

See the final result Tower of London Candles

Listening to soldiers from many different conflicts, the meaning of Remembrance Sunday is to remember the;

  • companionship and love for their colleagues, some of whom did not come home
  • past to be able to create a better future.

These acts of homage have taken place in many parts of the world. It is a key Life Lesson of ‘living peaceably’ we are re-enforcing to all and teaching to the young. These are very visual displays and re-enforce the numbers of people involved when things go wrong.

As we remember times of conflict when were did not succeed in finding a peaceable solution, we are recognising the cost of this in human lives.

There are better ways to live and in doing so we will create a better future

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By Alison Wem, ago

Understand the bigger picture of your life: Discover your Soul Community

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Need a treat for yourself? 

This day is just the thing for you. You get a whole day to let the child in you out. You cut out geometric shapes and stick them to brown paper to create the framework of your picture. Painting this picture brings in a calmness many long to experience. Often you gain insight into relationships and life lessons beyond your immediate Soul Family. It is a great way to understand challenges and manage stress in your life.

Price includes a signed copy of Creating Your Soul Map, the first book in the colourful Your Soul Family series. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

City gardening: do you like to get your hands in the soil?

Humans were not meant to be so remote from Mother Nature as perhaps many of us are who live in towns and cities.  In the UK, councils have started to set-up allotments on spare pieces of land perhaps besides a railway or between roads.  Some councils have chosen to allow residents to grow vegetables where formerly municipal flowers were planted.

In London where I live, I have managed to get an allotment allocated to our family.  To help children learn where their food comes from, the allotment only allows 20% of your patch to be given over to flowers.  The council gardeners encourage you to grow flowers that attract bees such as sun flowers or nasterchiums whose flowers you can eat in a salad.

These small allotments, a box of one square metre and some grow bags or flower pots, bring so many benefits.  To name but a few:

  • people talk to you in the garden, wow wonderful in an anonymous city.
  • a community has developed naturally in the garden with people sharing gardening tips and produce.
  • Mother Nature has arrived – bees, butterflies, worms, dragon flies, birds, foxes…..

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    By Alison Wem, ago