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Living a spiritual adventure with tea, nature, meditation in Kyoto

[peckgc @peckgc]

Every day, 630 mil children under 5 breathe in toxic air. Every year, 600,000 children die from air pollution. Share your views: https://t.co/o6EKssGmSR

#AirPollution #BreatheLife @WHO @UNICEF @UNEP @UNHABITAT @cleanairasia @cleanairfund @CCACoalition @BvLFoundation @ARNECnet

[peckgc @peckgc]

@PicoIyer Pico, you write beautifully as always! I am starting to read Aflame and am enjoying it thoroughly. “We say very little, but it’s all we don’t say that we share”.

[peckgc @peckgc]

@shaneparrish Go for a Japanese tea ceremony (Chado or Chanoyu) experience in Kyoto. A gateway to the spirituality of Japan - first brought from China, later refined then influenced the food, major arts, culture, philosophy of Japan. It’s not about the tea! 🍵🍁

[peckgc @peckgc]

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#water #72seasonsoftea Amidst all the scientific and technological interventions regarding water use and conservation, pollution, and recycling, the spiritual and cultural value of water is often overlooked - 2023 Water and Shintoism

[peckgc @peckgc]

Pico Iyer in his book The Art of Stillness - In an age of constant acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still. 
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@PicoIyer

[Straits Times Life @ST_LifeTweets]

Travel Journal: How a tea master and Zen meditation in Kyoto helped my healing journey https://t.co/SCovFBcmZe

[Bhavreen Kandhari @BhavreenMK]

It was heartening to share the journey of #WarriorMoms in India & beyond to advocate for clean air for our young children. Inspiring to be a part of this brilliant audience, translating all our concerns into action globally.

Thank you @arnecnet, for listening to our children💙

[peckgc @peckgc]

In this piece, I wrote about my curious inquiry into tea cultural heritage in Japan and Malaysia. An interest gained during my time here in Kyoto. https://t.co/yFgWSbwC7z

[Pico Iyer @PicoIyer]

We live amidst mysteries, secrets never disclosed, gaping holes in the narrative. The ache of that, the depth is nowhere more beautifully revealed in the novel Great House, an enquiry into all we'll never know, even about those most close to us.

[peckgc @peckgc]

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[Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @LossandDamage]

🤔Did you know that many #ClimateNegotiators from the #GlobalSouth have to fundraise to attend @UNFCCC Negotiations?🤯It's shocking! 😇That's why we are fundraising to support 2⃣ #LossAndDamage negotiators to attend the #BonnClimateConference in June! 🙏
https://t.co/MHh3B8hNBO

[Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @LossandDamage]

2/2. ❤️‍🩹Recognising the mental and physical burden faced by all who are impacted by —as well as those working on— #LossAndDamage, we are working on a a new @LossAndDamage project focusing on #Wellbeing.

🔗Find out more here: https://t.co/JbU90gDUDL

[Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @LossandDamage]

1/2.📰NEW BLOG: Peck Gee Chua shares how her passion for work led to chronic health diagnoses and asks is slowing down and taking care of ourselves a luxury when #LossAndDamage caused by the #ClimateCrisis and the #Polycrisis is so urgent?

🔗Read it here: https://t.co/xPLgWqj8OA

[ST Opinion @STopinion]

Why sitting is the new smoking: My sudden diabetes diagnosis https://t.co/IHM8FYe7JK

[Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @LossandDamage]

1/7.🥳 NEW PROJECT: Recognising the mental and physical burden faced by all who are impacted by —as well as those working on— #LossAndDamage, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new @LossAndDamage project focusing on #Wellbeing.

🔗Find out more: https://t.co/wAkBIE2Chn

[Prof Alex O. Awiti @alexawiti]

Our mortality is life’s most profound genius. Embrace it with gratitude not as a period that ends the beautiful sentence of life but as the punctuation in the unwritten chapters of new beginnings, renewal, possibilities and our collective eternity.

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

2023 has been a very exciting year. That’s a big problem. The word “exciting” is the most misunderstood word in today’s English. When you meet someone new, it is common to say “I am so excited to meet you”. When you visit a new place, you say “I am excited to be here”. When you want to praise an idea you say “what an exciting idea”. Apparently, people think “excited” means happy, and excitement is always good for us. But excitement can sometimes be the opposite of happiness. Negative emotions like outrage and fear greatly excite people. When the body senses danger, the nerves flash emergency messages, the neurons fire rapidly, and the whole body is excited. In 2023 the entire world has been far too excited. Nowhere is the epidemic of excitement more evident than in politics. The world is flooded with exciting politicians who create exciting news. We desperately need more boring politicians. To flourish, humans certainly need to be excited sometimes – about people, places, and ideas – but we also need to wind down. Next time you meet someone, try saying “I am relaxed to meet you”. I hope 2024 will be a relaxing year.

[peckgc @peckgc]

#COP28 We now live in the era of #lossanddamage from climate and environmental shocks - and 90% of the global health burden related to #climatechange is borne by children under five. What does this mean for our most valuable young children and babies?

#ECD4Resilience

[ParentsForFuture Global @parents4futureG]

“Children in Asia Pacific face an unequal burden of air pollution & environmental degradation
#EndFossilFuels & take #ClimateAction now that truly makes a difference to our most valuable group - our children”
Peck Gee Malaysia #FromOurHearts
Add your voice
https://t.co/hnaVzw4NcP

[peckgc @peckgc]

@climateaidil Yes, the youngest children before primary schooling are most vulnerable. The first 5 years of life starting from conception are when brains and bodies develop the fastest - critically sensitive period to the environment!

[Vatrukh Foundation @Vatrukh]

@BhavreenMK Carrying the voice of millions of mothers from #India @Warriormomsin .
##ActNowForChange
#BeyondPoliticsMoms
#JustTransitionMoms
#MomsForClimateJustice
Let's make our cities breatheable for our children!