by Shaun Chamberlin | Oct 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
I was deeply shocked to hear last night of the death of Michael Dowd, creator of the wonderful PostDoom.com. He and his wife Connie Barlow have been good friends to me, as they have to so many others. Michael and I had exchanged a few words on Saturday, so I knew that he was in New York with his family, after the passing of his father on Thursday.
I had absolutely no idea that he himself passed away that night. I’m very much still processing the news, but wanted to share the below beautiful tribute from Jordan Perry, approved by Connie, with whom my thoughts are.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Sep 15, 2023 | All Posts, Cultural stories
As John Lennon had it, “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”.
And as this culture continues the gruelling, methodical work of devastating our world in the face of all wisdom, and I accordingly work at preparing this winter’s Deeper Dive into Surviving the Future, I actually want to write here about something more personal than my usual themes!
by Shaun Chamberlin | May 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
The below phone message is from Morgan Trowland, the 40-year old civil engineer recently imprisoned for three years after suspending himself and a Just Stop Oil banner over the Dartford Crossing of the M25 motorway, prompting the police to close the road for 40 hours.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Dec 7, 2022 | All Posts, David Fleming, Lean Logic, The Sequel
Dear David,
I miss you. Still.
Ah, I’d planned to put this post up last Tuesday, on the twelfth anniversary of your sudden death, but I was too busy dealing with the flurry of interest in your legacy, so I know you’ll forgive me.
Instead I post it today. I have long had an impulse to burn a copy of the award-winningly beautiful final Lean Logic, to send it to you. And known that it is to be done on a full moon. Somehow it has never quite been the time. Tonight it will be.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 27, 2022 | Cultural stories, David Fleming, Out and about, Surviving the Future
Well, after last winter’s powerful ride, it’s now just six weeks until our second Deeper Dive, this time alongside Stephen Jenkinson, Nate Hagens, Isabelle Frémeaux, Mark Boyle, Sherri Mitchell, Tim DeChristopher, Rob Hopkins and Vandana Shiva, each of whom brings a unique and hard-won perspective on the challenges and joys of life well lived in these times. Together, we’ll feed those into reflecting on our own paths.
It feels a real privilege and honour to be holding such a potent space again this winter, and inviting into it both guests for whom I have such profound respect, and old friends and new — like yourself? — to become part of the enduring community that continues to grow around the work.
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