There are more opportunities to view the art exhibiton with work by Ratnadevi:
Fri 16 Dec, 7-9pm; Sat 17, 11am – 12pm; Sun 18, 2-4pm; Mo 19, 1-2pm and by appointment
Venue : 2 A Vinicombe Street (off Byres Road) email: playspacepublications@gmail.com
It would love to see you there, please do pop in! And please bring along friends and family.
Solstice New Year Sale now until 6th January
And PlaySpace Publication pop-up bookshop: 2A Vinicombe Street
The Art of Doing Nothing
There is no time
because we are too busy –
could we live longer doing nothing?
Nothing’s harder than doing nothing
Nothing’s easier than doing nothing
We need more time
growing our courage to wait
and see what happens next –
then we can simply be present
without leaping to solutions
No one dies from doing nothing
‘The Greater Mandala of Uselessness’
The Violence of Doin
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence.
The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
Thomas Merton
Living Our Dying – in the Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Thursdays 13:30 to 15:30 from 9th February to 3rd March 2023
8 weekly workshops for people living in the Glasgow area, partly based on the book Living Our Dying
Thursdays 9, 16 & 23 February, 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 March, 13.30-15.30, at the Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens
“I love this book – it will not only help you die a good death, it will strengthen you to live a good life.”
Richard Holloway
Further details and application here
let’s play-let’s play
joy chew knock
down the road
go rickety-rock
our magic code
sing away toad
sing away joy
the run-away clock
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