Travelling is a Mindset: Curiosity Breadcrumbs 3
Issue 3 of my monthly email series: Curiosity Breadcrumbs. This issue is about Travelling as a mindset – a way of thinking that can be embraced whatever our location. Subscribe here.
Back ‘home’
I’ve been ‘back’ for over two months now. It feels like both an eternity and no time at all somehow. I can’t say that it has always been plain sailing, yet it feels good to be here and I would not really want to be anywhere else right now. The month I spent at the …
Wandering through the city
Looking at ways of grounding the traveller’s mindset in our home towns and cities, I chatted with Shawn Micallef, urban columnist for the Toronto Star, editor and co-owner of Spacing magazine and teacher of urban civic citizenship at the University of Toronto, about the flâneur philosophy, psychogeography and the things you can only discover through walking. …
How to have a traveller’s mindset
Ways of experiencing the magic of travelling wherever you are 1. Get lost “ to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.” – Rebecca Solnit Part of the joy of travelling is the unfamiliarity of our surroundings. We need maps, …
Living Life as a Research Project: Curiosity Breadcrumbs 2
Welcome to issue 2 of Curiosity Breadcrumbs, my monthly exploration of a theme that has activated my curiosity. This month I delve into the idea of living Life as a Research Project, the act of paying close attention, of observing with a sense of presence, being infinitely interested as a matter of course, always looking …
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A week of Valletta 2018’s Curatorial School
Curating The New I’m not exactly sure why, but I have followed the last two annual Valletta 2018’s Curatorial School sessions with a sense of intrigue that has come with a side of ‘I don’t particularly belong there’. Not this year. Having really found my deep love for writing, freed my own inner artist and …
Courage : Curiosity Breadcrumbs 1
Here’s issue 1 of my monthly curated email, Curiosity Breadcrumbs around the theme of Courage. This month I explore the courage to be vulnerable through really putting your hear on your sleeve, talk to Grassy Hopper founder Yasmin De Giorgio about her relationship with courage and link to an interview with Elizabeth Gilbert where she talks …
Putting fear in the backseat
Yasmin De Giorgio’s paths of courage One of the people I’m lucky to call my friends, Yasmin De Giorgio founder and CEO of The Grassy Hopper and Theobroma Cacao Collective, is a person who seems to have endless fountains of courage. Armed with an ambitious vision of a business that transforms clients, employees and the …
A sense of home 2: Jonathan Magnin
Surviving (and thriving within) nomadism from those living without a fixed home. In part 2 of this series I speak to French digital nomad Jonathan Magnin. Jon helps people and business to gain clarity and grow. He’s into creativity, start-ups and growth hacking with a social twist. Which area of the world are you living …
A Brazilian Dreamer in Celle
How an anarchist with a dream birthed a space for creativity She appeared suddenly one evening in April. Celle di San Vito, the smallest village in the whole of Puglia was covered in snow, with the notorious Cellesi wind that gets right to the cores of your bones, blowing willfully. Like it’s trying to blow …