What does it take for us to risk our lives in defence of what we value? We’ve seen protesters in…

The novelist, Jonathan Franzen, gave a commencement address at Kenyon College this year and it was such powerful stuff that…

I think I owe a good deal of my nomadic existence to a kid’s television program from the 80’s called…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlrW_r3k1Q You’re the flame in the fire, dancing free, Ignite my desire, how I long to be Your lover, but…

This was a dream come true for me. Thanks to everyone involved! (Here’s another version with better sound but no…

I finally managed to write a song about the Rainbow without any irony in it…. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8avP7BmJU0 Thanks to Yasmin for…

You think of a navigator and you picture someone bent over charts and maps, studying a sextant and making longhand…

The strength of character shown here by Sinead O’Connor really blew me away. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fVxcT00Sc She was due to sing at…

One man’s forlorn message to the world, painted on concrete and lasting for years.

Theo Jansen makes herds of beasts out of plastic tubes that will live their lives on beaches, powered by the wind.

These are some of the songs I’ve written about the rainbow gatherings. When I first started going to rainbows I…

With the wonderful artwork of Daniela Petrozzi, this is my first comic – a voyage through themes of hitchhiking, immigration,…

A story of the trickster god, Loki, and how too much goodness and purity is just asking for trouble.

Although it was ancient wisdom that marriage was joy for a month and misery for a life, yet everyone agreed that Abu Hasan should marry. With a healthy personal fortune, a keen wit and a generous heart, he was quite the most eligible bachelor in Baghdad…

I always loved the melody of the classic jazz song, All of Me, but it was way too self-pitiful so I rewrote it with a positive feel.

Clouds made from giant brains, humans from drops of sweat and the sun and moon desperately trying to outrun ferocious wolves in vain – the vikings easily had the coolest creation story.

The indigenous tribe in the Colombian jungle had no word for ‘to lie’ or ‘to deceive’ and so were tragically ill-equipped to meet the modern world.

Our story concerns a kingdom deep in the Middle Easy, long ago, ruled by an old sultan whose wise and…

There was once born a baby girl so beautiful that one of the nurses screamed in delight, picked her up…

I was walking down the street some time ago and I heard a man explain to his son: “You see,…

Although it was ancient wisdom that marriage was joy for a month and misery for a life, yet everyone agreed that Abu Hasan should marry. With a healthy personal fortune, a keen wit and a generous heart, he was quite the most eligible bachelor in Baghdad…

Stories from Lao tzu, Chuang Tzu and other Chinese mystics from thousands of years ago.

Once upon a time you had only to imagine a place to be sure that somewhere, somehow, it actually existed. One such place was the Wishing Well.

“Good day! I saw you from far away and I am starving to death!” “Good day! I was dead but…

Of all the stories of broken-hearted lovers, none was ever quite so tragic as the man who fell in love…

As an angry young man I traveled to the hills of Pakistan and, to my surprise, found a way to help change the world.

“You’re nothing but a hound dog!” is what you’re telling someone when you accuse them of being a cynic. Coming…

Norton is one of my greatest heroes, a man who made his dream come true for him and everyone else just by believing in it…