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When Truth Moves Slower Than Harm
I’ve been in ongoing conversation lately with a family. Separately. Carefully. Slowly. They are circling the same truth: abuse by the mother. But they are not standing in the same place. The father doesn’t tell the story all at once. He lets it come out in pieces. And something strange happens in our conversations—he borrows…
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Community Projects Don’t Sit Still
I’ve never seen anything change as fast as a community project. Not weather. Not moods. Not politics. Community projects shift faster than language can keep up. It’s like the moment something becomes “established,” it starts to destabilise. As soon as you think you know what it is, it becomes something else. The centre moves. The…
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From Structure to Relationship: How Collaboration Reshaped a Project— highlighting the shift from rigid models to relational practice.
How a Project Shifted When We Followed Someone’s Way Pete’s story isn’t something I observed from a distance. It’s something we built inside of — often without knowing where it was going. When Pete first came to Food Not Bombs Hobart, the project itself was fragile. I was losing members. I was holding too much.…
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The Giveaway Table
A simple table, a few items, and an invitation to choose. The Giveaway Table explores how dignity, trust, and care can emerge through small, unstructured acts of generosity.
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Reflections: A Starting Point
This site isn’t offering answers or instructions. It’s a place for noticing — moments drawn from lived experience that invite you to slow down and enter gently.