Week-ish notes 02/12/24

An open lined notebook with three pens placed diagonally across the pages. The pens are light blue, dark blue, and black, arranged from top to bottom on a white surface.

On the 23 September I went along to LandAlive, a regenerative farming and food conference for the South West. The second day was themed around food. Caroline Grindrod opened the plenary with a beautiful talk about our ‘story of separation’ – how our fear, driven by from separation from land and nature, drove us to …

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Week-ish notes 24/10/24

An open lined notebook with three pens placed diagonally across the pages. The pens are light blue, dark blue, and black, arranged from top to bottom on a white surface.

I’ve been thinking about study, particularly as I approach the halfway-through-term reading week next week. Where my global systems thinking module on Mondays takes the form of a lecture with occasional group discussions, my Friday food systems module is a seminar. The approach is different for the two. At the Monday lecture, I take a …

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Week-ish notes – study tools

An open lined notebook with three pens placed diagonally across the pages. The pens are light blue, dark blue, and black, arranged from top to bottom on a white surface.

You might start a day with the best of intentions, but sometimes it takes just a few things for it to go off the rails, and the best thing to do is just accept the loss and move on rather than making it worse beating yourself up about it. I have great difficulty achieving focus …

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Week-ish notes

opened notebook with three assorted color pens

I’m inspired to try blogging more often using the day/week notes format I’ve seen from Dave Briggs and others. I want to take the pressure off myself, of needing to think of a big theme for a post and go back to using this site as a scratchpad. So it’s back to the diary format. …

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