Jay Griffiths is a writer, mostly of non-fiction books, and occasionally of fiction. Her books include ‘Pip Pip’, about the politics of time; ‘Wild’, about wildness and wilderness; and ‘Kith’, about childhood and the natural world. She often writes about indigenous cultures because, as she observes, “I think there is much that non-indigenous cultures can learn from indigenous cultures”. ‘Kith’ in particular focused on the need to cultivate and nurture childhoods that put imagination at their heart.
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“A child can transform a twig and a pile of leaves into absolutely anything”
To me one of the most important things is mental sovereignty, is that you really think for yourself rather than be made small, be made constrained, by the narrowness of the dominant culture.
March 27, 2019
The Transition Initiative
In a sense the Transition Initiative places itself as a social tipping point, with dramatic and positive consequences where the sudden wisdom of communities breaks through the stolid unwisdom of national government.
(excerpts)
June 27, 2009
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