Expect miracles. Anticipate magic. This is the Wind, Breath, Spirit trecena, and it’s going to be a period of high intensity and high excitement for millions of people, just like it was in the UK last year, at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s Grand Platinum Jubilee. But at this particular time there are many stark contrasts. Firstly, there are the Read the full article…

Are you tired of winter yet? Are you feeling like you need an infusion of “fun?” The good news is that this “refreshment”-oriented time frame is offering all sorts of opportunities for immersion in the colour, light, fantasy, and fabulousness of many winter festivals, in addition to still being in the midst of Chinese Lunar New Year season. This is Read the full article…

There is a saying in the Haida language that translates as “The World is as Sharp as the Edge of a Knife”, which refers to that thin line between dualities such as sanity and insanity, control vs. chaos, humanity vs. inhumanity. And it seems that, as we begin this “knife-edged” trecena, that the edge of that knife is particularly thin Read the full article…

Stripped down to the bare bones – that is how much is looking these days after so much dreadful weather . . . and the tense and demanding events of the past trecena that saw enormous anti-government protests in the Ukraine, Bosnia, Venezuela, and Thailand; the rescue of hundreds of people from Homs in Syria; and millions of people struggling Read the full article…

It could be a tense start to 2014’s Winter Olympics, as there have already been grumblings about Sochi’s relative readiness for these games (as described in Sam Laird’s article – click here). And then there are the concerns about terrorist threats (even such things as toothpaste bombs) and about issues such as gay rights in Russia. Thrown into this mix Read the full article…