Poetry Stone Circle with Haiku Poems near Creetown | click the photo to read more

​I am in bed with a cold for three days now. Alone time, whereas we are together with people most of the time since we left our home. Looking at the beautiful blanket that covers me, I remember Tony our dear friend from Baldegg (Switzerland) who introduced me to a poem of Jörg Zink. I tried to translate the most touching lines of it, suddenly realizing, this is what Sesto and me are doing on our pilgrimage.

You can read the whole poem after the click. In German, because I feel not able to bring all the beauty of it into English ...​

"The past international degrowth conferences have been strongly influential in defining and opening new research and political fields. They have been inspired by social movements and experiments, and developed policy proposals as well as initiatives for social experiments in a wide range of areas. And besides all this, they managed to attract significant attention from the general public and the media.
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The international conferences on degrowth are central landmarks and moments of convergence of the international degrowth intellectual and social movements. They offer a unique opportunity for bringing together scholars with other members of civil society and demonstrating a different way of organizing conferences. A central feature of the conferences has been direct participation and collaboration among participants."
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​find out more about the call | The offical website: www.degrowth.org | for all our German speaking friends: Matthias Schmelzer on degrowth in the Blog www.postwachstum.de

In his special article for the Huffington Post: "First Brexit, Now Trump: When Will We Finally Take Globalisation Seriously?", John Bunzl peels back the layers of the seismic shift in modern party politics to get at what's gone wrong, and what might be next.

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​find out about John Bunzls initiative "Simpol" The Simultaneous Policy on www.simpol.org

After the elections I didn't even mention the name of "the guy", but what has happened affects us - the whole world, our future - and I see it as an opportunity. As I am not an expert in politics, but the underlying themes are anyway different ones I like to recommend one of my favourite thinkers Charles Eisenstein. He's one of the rare good reads in these times. Enjoy!

" ..."Hate and blame are convenient ways of making meaning out of a bewildering situation."
"The dissolution of the old order that is now officially in progress is going to intensify. That presents a tremendous opportunity and danger, because when normal falls apart the ensuing vacuum draws in formerly unthinkable ideas from the margins. Unthinkable ideas range from rounding up the Muslims in concentration camps, to dismantling the military-industrial complex and closing down overseas military bases. They range from nationwide stop-and-frisk, to replacing criminal punishment with restorative justice. Anything becomes possible with the collapse of dominant institutions. When the animating force behind these new ideas is hate or fear, all manner of fascistic and totalitarian nightmares can ensue, whether enacted by existing powers or those that arise in revolution against them. " ...
​Read the whole thing here!