by Melinda Sinclair | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
“I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.” — Greta Thunberg, “Our House Is On Fire” speech, World Economic Forum, 2019 A few weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with a sense of deep unease....
by Melinda Sinclair | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
How curious are you? How are you curious? What does it actually mean to be curious? And why does it matter? Or does it matter? Curiosity is one of those everyday constructs that we often take for granted, without more deeply questioning what it is and how it...
by Melinda Sinclair | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Spring has really arrived in Toronto. This last weekend was a perfect celebration of this arrival. The sun was shining. The sky was blue. It was definitively above freezing. Only very small patches of snow still hide in the deepest shady corners. Snowbells and...
by Melinda Sinclair | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Seeing ourselves and our very brief flash of a life span in the context of deep time is one of those mysteries that truly stretch our ability to make sense of the experience of being a human. What to make of our brief blink of a life in the context of a universe that...
by Melinda Sinclair | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Hope is not optimism. That makes hope dependent on circumstances, something based in the external world. Instead, hope is a discipline, a commitment to keep on investing our time, effort, and energy in the quest to work towards “a better future” – in whatever...
