Josie Moon

Garden Reboot: Stone Frogs and the Art of Letting Go

The old sheds were beyond saving, and if I’m honest, I’d been putting off the inevitable for far too long.

The Unfolding Canvas: Art, Revolution, and the Search for Common Ground

How can we reclaim our creative selves, our intuitive capacity for wonder? How can we assert the centrality of art to our humanity, its power to solve problems, foster collaboration, and generate joy? How can creativity and art become pathways out of conflict?

Dreaming and Greening

This week, my focus has been on the burgeoning life in my garden and the subtle greening happening in my community. It’s a community that faces a stark reality: a mere 3% canopy cover. This leaves our terraced streets vulnerable to sweltering heat in the summer, the concrete and lack of shade creating a desert-likeContinue reading “Dreaming and Greening”

Unease and Finding Peace

This week has been a challenging one, dominated by a strong sense of injustice felt on behalf of someone I care about deeply. This heightened sensitivity to unfairness, particularly when it affects loved ones, is a common trait associated with ADHD. While it fuels a desire to fight for what’s right, it also leaves meContinue reading “Unease and Finding Peace”

Soul Cooking

A strange craving for vegan sausage casserole last week revealed a culinary oversight: I haven’t owned a proper casserole dish in years. A perfectly acceptable hob-top version fuelled my desire for the real thing – a heavy, dependable cast iron casserole, a cauldron for slow-cooked dishes, infused with love and intention. Yesterday, I found itContinue reading “Soul Cooking”

Containing Multitudes

One of the most important things I have learnt over the past few years is that no person is just one thing. This might sound obvious but in a world where tribalism is in the ascendant and when public discourse is often at a comparable level to caged monkeys throwing their excrement at each other,Continue reading “Containing Multitudes”

Wild Bells, Strange Places

Better versions of ourselves can make the small differences that lead to big changes. Our shadows are ever present, our id part of who we are, but they don’t have to be in charge.

Northern Nostalgia

It’s a difficult world at the moment. There is a pervasive bleakness that is impossible to deny and it would be easy to sink under the overwhelm and hopelessness that characterises the times in which we find ourselves. What does an individual do in times like these? In our Philosophy in Public Spaces group (youContinue reading “Northern Nostalgia”