Month: August 2022

David Hockney – English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer.

Donna Haraway – Scholar and author on questions of science and feminism.

Donella Meadows – environmental scientist, educator, and writer.

Gilles Deleuze – French philosopher.

Malcolm Knowles – adult educator, famous for the adoption of the theory of andragogy, and influencer in the development of the Humanist Learning Theory and the use of learner constructed contracts or plans to guide learning experiences.

Mary Parker Follett – social worker, management consultant, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behaviour.

Nina Simone – singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist.

Rachel Carson – marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

If, after I’ve gone, what I’ve left behind others things can grow from, then my life has been a success.

This is my life goal. To live life in a way leaves behind good things that other things can grow from, and not too many bad things that might prevent other things from growing.

For me, this means two things.

Physical, real world stuff of limiting my climate impact, not using planes for travel, reducing my belongings and choosing things that can be easily disposed of. Not adding to future generations to further stretch our planet’s finite resources.

Intellectual, always indebted to the work of others, building on ideas, adding to the fertile soil for future ideas. Questioning, curious, critical and creative.

“We are all compost”

 – Donna Haraway