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Alison Geldart's avatar

Thanks for taking the time to read this piece Dougald! I find your careful and thoughtful delivery very soothing and engaging at the same time :) And I've recently discovered Dark Mountain so I'm looking forward to exploring the back catalogue further.

Interesting thoughts on improvisation and uncertainty, indeed. "...relearning the craft of making it up as we go along; cooking from the ingredients to hand, rather than starting with a recipe." – I feel like modernity has stripped away our confidence in ourselves so much, in our capacity to do things (both individually and communally), that we hand over responsibility to 'professionals' (I'm particularly thinking of my two current fixations health care and death care here).

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Joe Coroneo-Seaman's avatar

Thank you for this, Doug. I has fallen out of the habit of reading Writing Home, but the title of this one drew me back in.

I think the word that's a counterpoint to always-forward-looking innovation is 'wisdom'.

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