Soteria Bristol: local group launch meeting.

The Convenor of Bristol Soteria has sent this account of the launch meeting. First Bristol Soteria Network Meeting 29th February, 2020  A small group of us met in central Bristol for our first meeting as a local group. We were all from different backgrounds but shared...

Only Connect….

In these physically isolating times we still endeavour to heed E. M. Forster’s advice to ‘only connect.’ There’s much current advice out there too, on how best to cope positively with imposed isolation at home, and I won’t replicate it....

Something to share this Spring Day

I love this poem by John Clare at this time of year, and hear it in my mind’s ear when I’m on an early morning walk and see the ‘pilewort’, commonly known as celandine, unfurling its petals to the day. A ‘pingle’ is a small enclosed...
Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion

I’ve heard of a ‘new’ psychological term, ‘eco-anxiety’. Well, I’ve been feeling near ‘eco-despair’ for a long time, but I discovered Extinction Rebellion via a Guardian article last November. I joined the Exeter group...