Learning to be a Villager
I’m going to be real with you. It’s not been the easiest to love where I live recently. My life has been a bit of a whirlwind over the last two months. There’s stuff I want to share but don’t feel it’s fair to, so
The Slow Down Club
Born from a collective desire to find some relief from the pace of modern life, the first Slow Down Club is simply a space to reflect and to imagine together. A co-creation of what life might be like with a little more ease, a little more peace, a little less pace.
From Unravelling to Learning to Love
Hi folks, My name is Olivia Stamp and if you're receiving this email it's because you at one time or another signed up to my Substack 'Unravelling Together: Reimagining through Crisis'. The good news is that we did it. We unravelled and now all
Learning to Love Where We Live
This one has been a long time coming but now that I’m writing, it’s hard to know where to begin. See, I’m a millennial who got Instagram in the final year of university: that heady time where the structure of the obvious next step is taken away
Happy International Beaver Day
On the art of just getting started
What’s behind your house?
On rediscovering curiosity and wonder in our own back gardens.
We've got a Mountain to Move
Or, reflections on a 31st birthday
Something has changed within me, something is not the same
Or, why Wicked has a lot to teach us
From paralysis to purpose: this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.
Or why we need to use the next 19 years very wisely.
On existing, taking time and building resilience
Or: on upgrading from cold showers to winter sea swims
Taiwan: Earthquakes, Resilience and People Power
A life-changing trip and conversation with Audrey Tang
Introducing Uncommon Threads
It's unrelenting analogies and puns from here on out