Insights: Five Things I Learned From Going On A Saga Walking Holiday
What a week on Gozo with a group of 70 and 80 year-olds taught me about life and ageing.
One idea that stayed with me from Robert Macfarlane’s book Underland (which I still haven’t managed to finish) is that humans find it almost impossible to show compassion for the future.
“To think ahead in deep time runs against the mind’s grain”, as Macfarlane puts it, in typically grandiose style. “Beyond a hundred years…
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