As I write this, I’m sitting in bed. I’d been having an afternoon nap and wasn’t quite ready to get up, so I brought the laptop back to bed with me. After all, who said you always have to work from your desk or your office?
It never occurred to me to do this until I met a friend whom I haven’t seen for a while, and she described her day to me. With a young child, I was interested how she managed to make time for her own writing.
“We take it in turns to take care of Daniel, and when it’s his turn to do the childcare, I scarper back to bed with my laptop. I love it. There’s masses of room, its the most (more...)
Paul Hawken, Findhorn Foundation and your business
posted in Business Basics, Heart of RichThinking, Jane's Blog
Yesterday I was giving a tour round the Findhorn Foundation, Scotland, and just before I set off, Richard in the Visitors Centre handed me a copy of Paul Hawken’s commencement address to the Class of 2009 at the University of Portland, Oregon.
“Read it”, he said, “it’s incredible, really inspiring!”
“Is it the same Paul Hawken who visited Findhorn in the seventies and wrote The Magic of Findhorn?” I said.
And indeed it is. That book is out of print, but at the time it was famous for telling the world about the enormous vegetables being grown at Findhorn at the time, which led to the huge community expansion that happened in those years. Paul has since then written 6 other books, the latest being Blessed Unrest: How (more...)