by Gundula Welti
07 Apr 2020
“Wogging?” I ask my friend Frédérique with a raised eyebrow. As an editor, she’s already taught me a lot about language, but I’m pretty sure that this word is just plain made-up. She smiles knowingly and explains: “it’s just my way of referring to the sponsored run I’m doing where I’m going to partly run and partly walk; I wogging!”
We often think that life requires us to do either one thing or another but not both, whereas in actual fact life lets us mix and match. When I did my marathon, I definitely “walran” (although obviously I didn’t know it at the time).
Dessert AND cheese. Beach AND shade. Work AND raise children. Have a dog AND go on holiday. The list is endless.
What are you depriving yourself of by using an OR instead of an AND?
What if you did both?
by Gundula Welti
05 Apr 2020
A Facebook post catches my eye. Fabrice is describing his new way of going for forest walks with his children. He’s had enough of feeling annoyed about packaging, plastic bottles and bits of paper littering the forest so he decides that, instead of grumbling and complaining about other people, he will take action.
A quick Internet search yields two litter grabbers. Now the new game he plays with his children is walking in the forest and picking up everything they find on the trails and in the undergrowth. The result? They’ve come home with 200 L of rubbish and the satisfaction of having achieved something.
Fabrice’s post has 7 shares and 20 comments, and has served as the launch pad for his own wave of change. He has used it to tell people where to find litter grabbers and organise meet ups for rubbish walks.
Fed up to the back teeth of others not taking any action? Well, what kind of fun activity can you do at your level?
