Indigenous languages have the power to inspire a closer connection to nature, they can make us see the world differently and hence inspire a closer connection to our natural environment – something that is necessary if we are to change the human behavior that has led to the ecological crisis. This blogpost is about the role of stories. Stories express cultural values, traditions and philosophies of life that are related to the context people live in. The indigenous stories th

Everywhere we are we can learn something and everyone can be a teacher. All we have to do is pay attention. I was reminded of this when...

Musician Ray Brown sees music and life as more than just connected: life is music, and we are all musicians. We just have to remember ...

Recently I heard the song 'daydream' from Lily Meola. A song with beautifully written lyrics and a message to think about.

For quite a long time I did not like people. Of course there were the people that I loved and that I had good relationships with. But my...

Imagine you are at the register of a bus station somewhere in India. All the buses you see are small and without AC. It is hot so the...

The backpackers world is small. I remember that from travelling in Southeast Asia. I would see people that I met in my first week at a random bus stop in another country weeks later. That the backpacker world is small makes sense. Everyone does a similar loop, or at least everyone goes to the same backpacker places. On top of that many people are travelling for months at a time, so there is a lot of time to run into each other again. I am currently travelling in South America

Last week I went surfing at a beach I haven't surfed at in quite a while. Even though this surfspot was in Waikīkī, Honolulu, Hawai`i,...