Double Take: Our Bodies
NS: In our last dialogue – on masks – we touched on the importance (or not) of our physical appearance. It made me start thinking of our relationship with our own bodies. There is...
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Double Take – About Time
NS: What time is it? It may be noon here but it is midnight somewhere else. And in a galaxy far, far away it may be something quite different to half past three or...
Double Take – on Hibernation
RJR: I am rewatching the film Everest at the moment. It is a thought-provoking account of the journey to the summit on 10 May 1996. One of the climbers reflects to the journalist that it is not...
Double Take – on Space
A DIALOGUE… RJR: Do you remember when talking about ‘personal space’ was a thing? I remember when I was in my teens and twenties, we used to kid around about invading each other’s space, and...
Double Take: Can We Learn from Plants?
A DIALOGUE… NS: Did you see the pictures inside the opera house in Barcelona where a concert to celebrate the end of lockdown was played to an audience of more than 2,000 plants?! The opera...
Double Take: on Gratitude
A dialogue with ROWENA J RONSON NS: “When you get up in the morning, think what a privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love…” These are...
Double Take: on Needs and Desires
A dialogue with ROWENA J RONSON NS: For many of us, lockdown has been a time of frustration. But what is it that is being frustrated? To a degree it may be that we...
Double Take: On Dealing with Loss
A Dialogue with ROWENA J RONSON RJR: We are all at a loss – one way or another. Even if we take out people we know who have been ill or may have passed over...
Double Take: What Now for Those Who Are Vulnerable?
A dialogue with ROWENA J. RONSON RJR: No one has the answers – the government, the scientists, the hospitals. What will happen after lockdown is eased, in terms of the virus, is unprecedented and...
Double Take: on the Coronavirus Crisis
A dialogue with ROWENA J RONSON NS: We are in the midst of a great crisis. And we have no idea when and how it will end. All we can do is get through...
