The Phantom Steps Forward
“Everyone” must also include the person who asks an uncomfortable question. The person who wants her work to be recognised. The person who is trying to build a future here.
Everyone Can Flourish*
We can contemplate the transformation of society, what it means to flourish, and Åland’s contribution to the global future. Identifying who wrote what apparently requires a considerably more advanced civilisation.
The Possibility Tax
A boundary framed as self-doubt allows the other person to retain his dignity. But it also allows him to continue negotiating. And that is the trap.
Left Behind
A missed bus gave us an unexpected morning together, a field of dahlias, and one magnificent flower already occupied by a bee. After twenty-one years of marriage, perhaps love is partly this: thousands of ordinary acts, and knowing what to do with the time life unexpectedly gives back.
The “I” in Solidarity
Other people have a way of ruining the tidy versions of ourselves. They bring histories we did not inherit, needs we did not anticipate, and truths that rearrange the furniture. It is one thing to imagine a world with room for everyone. It is another to stand beside someone when doing so changes where you are welcome.