Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

S51E4 Different types of friendship

Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about the different types of friendship that make a full and happy life.

S51E3 Friendship: a ‘behavioural vaccine’?

Walking my local streets this lunchtime, considering whether friendship could be a ‘behavioural vaccine’.

S51E2 Friendship: a ‘critical social institution’

Reflecting on the words of Andrew Sullivan, this lunchtime, that friendship is a critical social institution but one which gets overlooked in favour of the nuclear family. Plus a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska

S51E1 Friendship vs the nuclear family

Walking around the park behind the hospital in the rain this lunchtime thinking about friends vs nuclear family.

S50E10 Gifts - Thank you for walking with me

Walking my local streets this lunchtime in relentless rain, thinking about eeverything we’ve learned this series. I’lll be back in late October with Series 51. I wonder what we’ll be discussing then.

S50E9 Gifts and habits

My radical promot today, dear friends, is that most creative genius is not an act, but a habit. Walking my local streets, paying attention to what’s directly in front of me as we approach the end of the series.

S50E8 Gifts and Universal Basic Income

Walking my local streets, thinking about how society doesn’t value creative gifts enough. What hope of structures for creative folk to develop their gifts? Plus a walking report from Cindy in Nebraska.

S50E7 Make your gift the centre of your life

Walking my local streets this lunchtime considering thoughts mistakenly attributed to Albert Einstein: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."