However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap. . . . But to rejoice when no one else is there Is even harder than it is to weep; No one is watching, but you have to leap. . . . Our dream of safety has to disappear. I really enjoyed this exerpt from the book Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood by Suzanne Braun Levine . It was this W H Auden poem “Leap Before You Look” that first caught my attention.

Instead Facebook says it will have links to organisations including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) centre on its reporting pages. Although I’m a huge supporter of CEOP’s marvellous work, I have to say I can see Facebook’s point. Grooming activity is not the only reason why people may want to report a post – think of bullying, copyright, hate crime, terrorist activity, inappropriate language or imagery – there are a multitude of reasons why one user may wish to report another. If a CEOP panic button were prominent on each post, the danger

Massimo De Angelis on the role of Pochama : “Pochamama is the deity of Andean origin and refers to “mother earth”, not just as geological earth or nature but also as a set of relations, a deity of reproduction, a protective rather than creative deity or perhaps better, a deity for which human creation is just a moment of a reproduction cycle. It seems to me that paradoxically, the insistence on Pachamana, as the sacred mother earth from which we depend on, is, quite amazingly, a materialist approach to nature. Massimo de Angelis report on the Yasuni’s struggle against petroleum extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon region, based and inspired by their “Mother Earth” related deity Pochamama, clearly discusses the same links we discuss in our section on neotraditional economics, and why these linkages between pre-industrial and post-industrial thinking and practices are important, see here for details.