Katherine Phelps

“…and the Universe, … will explode later for your pleasure.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe   A friend of mine was told by Australia’s welfare system that his work as a simulated patient for medical training was “unrealistic”, and that he should find a different field of work. An […]

I was raised in a deeply right-wing religious family. At first I took their worldview on, because what else is a child going to do? However, with experience and introspection I started to drift. I now jokingly say that “I’m Gandhi left not Che Guevara left”. The drift wasn’t because I am smart. My whole […]

Learn how to make peace with yourself. Learn how to make peace with friends and family. Learn how to extend goodwill toward all people. Learn to make peace with the planet. Peace is the means of love. Peace is the outcome of love.   Peace and kindness, Katherine

I would be very careful of a rebellious transgressive identity. It sounds freeing, but it can be its own prison. When I was a kid we moved around every three years from small town to small town. At one point I realised that no matter what I did, I was going to be an outsider. […]

Light and its characteristics Light can be demonstrated to behave as both a particle and a wave. Using the Double Slit Experiment light is found to measurably behave as discrete particles. Light passing through the slits is absorbed on an observing screen at discrete points behind the slits, and when detectors are used, each detected […]

“Don’t you think she looks tired?” David Tennant as Dr Who, “The Christmas Invasion” 2005 These questions are for the people running around in suits today. Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmingly stressed? Do you feel tired, as if life is moving on and on and you can’t make it stop? Are you feeling exhausted […]

People think I’m crazy. For decades now I have been saying that if we change our culture’s stories we will start seeing important social changes. I have worked to found various community groups, I wrote policy for an Australian political party, I have helped charities. The most effective thing I have ever done is write […]

I would like to challenge people. I want you to take a pocket full of coins, go out into the streets, give that change to various beggars, then wait for them to look up at you. Don’t expect them to thank you, but accept their thanks if they give it. Look into their faces and […]

“The WPA (Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration) provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States. At its peak in 1938, it provided paid jobs for three million unemployed men and women, as well as youth in a separate division, the National Youth Administration. Between 1935 and 1943, when […]

What if we have enough…provided we share. What if we decided we would all be better off if, rather than playing a competitive game of hoarding, we did what we could to distribute what we collectively have such that everyone has enough to thrive? The world is having problems because of over population. However, it […]