This was the most delightful phrase to hear on a dark Thursday morning. Apparently, when the Academy contacted Anne Carson telling her she had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, she said she was in Iceland “listening to the wind”.

What eventually sparked this tribe to actively change the place they found themselves, I wouldn’t presume to know, but what a beautiful way to describe what it takes to begin genuine change. As we are open to learning a new way of thinking, of living, of seeing differently, we become more conscious and let ourselves open even more.