by Eugenie Verney | Feb 17, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
It’s Day 7 of my 21 Days of Transience, with a look at the balance of power between species… Here we are, at the top of the food chain, us humans with all the power. All the power, and all the potential for abusing that power. But while I’m acutely aware...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 16, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
This is Day 6 of My 21 Days of Transience, and nothing could be much more transient than this… There we are, me and my mother, on an airport transfer bus. We’ve disembarked from the aircraft and we’re sitting and waiting to leave for the terminal. Which airport,...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 15, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
Here we are on Day 5 of my 21 Days of Transience, pondering what it is that makes somewhere safe… When, exactly, in the past year did everyone start ending conversations, meetings, calls, emails with ‘stay safe’? And what does ‘stay safe’ even mean? What’s safe...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 12, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
Day 4 of my 21 Days of Transience takes me beyond check-in and off-grid… Was a time when I’d head for an airport and pull on this endearing mantle of anonymity, and have it comfortably in place before reaching check-in. I’d park ‘regular me’ and morph...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 11, 2021 | Making Waves Blog
On Day 3 of my 21 Days of Transience, we head for rural Gloucestershire… I never thought to ask my aunt exactly why her husband wanted to be buried in a Gloucestershire churchyard. Born Vilmos Levy into a family of Budapest doctors and intellectuals, he was...