Do You Matter?
A lot of us have spent a lot more time at home this year than we expected. Out in public, if we are hidden behind a mask and keep ‘respectful’ distances from each other we are still not meeting and…
The Chaos of Change
Change Jan 22 2020 Change is accelerating all around us. Gone is any idea that things might return to normal. "Normal" is what is driving this change. Machines have a tick-over or standby setting. Nature never did. The idea that…
A Harmony of Simple Beauties:
Using Sounding Bowls in the care of people living with dementia A section on Sounding Bowls from the book: "Living Well with Dementia through Music" A Jessica Kinglsey book Assembled and Edited by Cathy Richards, Due out late summer 2019…
A Sound Sense of Self
This article is both a game and also serious. The words we use are formed of sounds. One can find twelve basic consonant sounds in the European languages and seven vowel sounds that are ordered into our alphabet of 26…