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Memorial Celebration of the life of Professor Brian Goodwin
Sunday September 20th at 2pm, Great Hall, Dartington, Devon
On Sunday 20th September, we will be remembering our dear friend and inspired teacher, Professor Brian Goodwin at a Memorial Celebration of his life, here at Dartington, Devon.
In order to help us to plan and cater accordingly, if you would like to participate in and attend this event, please RSVP by emailing us on briancelebration@dartington.org Please tell us if you intend bringing anyone with you. This will help us to plan the programme and catering for the day.
Schumacher College pays tribute to Professor Brian Goodwin
“There is truth in each of us, but to see some of it we should be humble enough to accept that it is too big that we could get to see it all”.
Brian Goodwin, March 2009.
In honour of Brian, The Brian Goodwin Trust is being set up. To read our tribute to Brian, and learn more about The Brian Goodwin Trust, click here
How was Brian in your story?
Everyone is invited to send us their thoughts, memories, and stories connecting them to Brian, by completing the comments section below. These will then appear on this page for everyone to share. This will be especially important for those of you wanting to remember, respect and mark Brian’s great contribution to the wellbeing of the planet, but who are unable to attend the Memorial Celebration.
Schumacher College is part of the Dartington Hall Trust, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and as a charity (company no. 1485560, charity no. 279756). Registered office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK.
I first met Brian 10 years ago in Cornwall while on a undergraduate study abroad program. He taught the last week of October, and stayed overnight for the Halloween Party. Dressed as a mystic or perhaps a gypsy he danced a flowing hypnotic phrase which encapsulated all that we had learned from him that week. Be joy. We are creatures of life, and like any other our creativity comes from within but finds meaning in its meeting with the world. I can still see him dancing there in Worthyvale Manor. What an easy articulation of love for the moment, and yet what a gift to give us that memory for a lifetime.
Years later while studying at Schumacher I had a meeting with Brian outside in front of the Postern. We were basking in a rare but glorious sunny day while talking about something or other. As he was waxing on I noticed the tiniest spider crawling over the very tip of one of the white hairs dangling over his forehead. The spider proceeded to drop down off of that tip of hair, rappelling down on a silken strand perhaps an inch or two before, I supposed approving of the conversation, he decided to backtrack. I don’t know where that spider went and Brian never noticed a thing. Like for that spider, Brian supported many of us in ways he couldn’t fully have been aware. My work at Schumacher would not have been possible without his vision, presence, and insistence. Brian is a man who, I suspect, has lived many lives. I am happy and grateful to have known him in at least one of them. He is a magician, a poet, a mentor, a friend, and a pretty darn good dancer too. Dance on brother…
— Justin West · Jul 24, 09:11 PM · #
Brian was an enormous influence in my life. We met 20 years ago for the first time,
and my career was inspired by many of his thoughts and views. He was always open
to discussion, to share ideas and accept criticisms. It was a privilege to cross my path
with Brian’s. I can say that he helped me finding my way through the road less taken. I’ll miss
him a lot.
— Ricard Solé · Jul 28, 10:29 PM · #
Brian was remarkable as both a person and a scientist. He made a big impression on me with his kindness, integrity, courage and intelligence. He really did seem to shine. The strength of this impression is surprising because we only met on a few occasions. One was when he and Mae-Wan Ho generously came to Leicester to help with our theoretical biology group and another was when he came to Montpellier to give a very profound talk at our Systems Biology school. Despite the rarity of our contacts, I always felt that Brian was a brilliant friend I could simply call and ask for help. I shall miss him.
— Vic Norris · Jul 29, 02:42 PM · #
I have known Brian since the 1970s, and he has been a great inspiration to me both intellectually and personally. Over so many years, whenever I came across really profound and subtle questions about the nature of life, I would put a note, “Ask Brian!”, in my manuscripts, and in countless discussions here in Berkeley and at Schumacher College he would always give me deep and inspiring answers. I think that his special genius was that he combined his practice of a science of qualities and his deep humanity with the rigor of the mathematician. Nobody knew how to apply the subtle concepts and sophisticated mathematics of complexity theory to the life sciences like Brian. He has been a foundational column in my scientific worldview, and I will miss him terribly. At a personal level, I was always impressed and inspired by Brian’s tremendous zest for life. When he discussed the nature of morphogenesis, or the self-organization of an anthill, his eyes began to shine, and you could see in them the awe, wonder, and sheer enthusiasm of a great scientist and great human being. And he showed the same zest for life, with the same shining eyes and enthusiastic voice, when he talked about walking along the river Dart, or playing tennis, or hanging out with the Schumacher community. He always seemed to live life to its fullest.
— Fritjof Capra · Aug 3, 11:40 AM · #
Brian was first my friend, then he was my thesis director. I first meet Brian in Mexico City in 1988. He was visiting UNAM for a conference on complexity and evolutionary issues. Brian came again to Mexico in 1990 along with several US students wishing to know closely indigenous cultures as alternative models to modern western civilization. I joined the Open University postgraduate program with Brian as my advisor in 1992. These times were brain storming for us, bridging ideas from chaos theory, evolution and social behaviour. Brian was always willing to get involved in intellectual challenging discussions with his characteristic gentle touch. We have lost a very good friend and a outstanding free thinker. We will miss you.
— Octavio Miramontes · Aug 6, 01:25 AM · #
Brain was a delightful man – resolute in argument, warm and gracious. He will be regarded as an important chain in the line of succession of “geometrical biologists”, of whom D’Arcy Thompson is the supreme example. Marginalised by the genetic code fanatics, both he and his ideas will continue to have their day.
Martin Kemp
— martin kemp · Aug 8, 10:52 AM · #
I met Brian in 1999, at the Santa Fe Institute. We went into town and have lunch on a quiet little place. We talked and talked and talked about creatures in morphospace. I had so many things to tell him. For all my study years he was such an inspiration, and there I was, having lunch with Brian Goodwin.. He was so attentive and enthusiastic about all I had to say; I was ecstatic. Since then our paths crossed several times in different meetings where he was always a true gentleman of science. His ideas will be with us forever in this universe of qualities.
— Diego Rasskin-Gutman · Aug 9, 06:56 PM · #
Breeding Tolerance
A Tribute to Brian Goodwin
He saw the danger lurking
In the science of favouritism
That places one above the rest
At the tip of a pyramid of numbers
Like a leopard
That subjects each spot
To selective inattention
To save the singularity
At the tip of its tale
He strived to bring each one to focus
In the form of gathering order
That holds no place for uniformity
But ripples with life’s turbulence
Ever varied, ever varying
Like shingle on the shore
With each stone resting in another’s dimples
Where rectangularity finds the odd stone out
He felt the magic of the natural
That has no need for anywhere beyond itself
As cause for wonder
Unless reduced to abstract objects
By sovereign minds
Seeking limitless rule
By imposing limited rules
He sought to enrich the life of learners
Like himself
With more than the thin concoction
Of spice-less soup
That turns the mind to acid
Seeking metallic certainty
In which to etch its absolutes
Of action and reaction
He championed the need for Nature’s crops
To stay unmolested by men’s desire
For something more reliable
To sustain the favoured few
On the unsustainable march
To immortality in stasis
Yet when confronted in adversarial debate
By minds that would molest
Given the chance
He held his own with graceful temper
Laughing with them
Calling them friends
Chastising them with subtle humour
To reach beneath the surface of their fear
And, in that reaching
Revealed the depth of his soul
Alan Rayner
18th July 2009
— Alan Rayner · Aug 18, 09:43 AM · #
Brian was a modern day alchemist, a magician with his sleeves rolled up who knew “there is no truth beyond magic.” I am sure like me, there are many of his students who will never forget how Brian managed to turn the base-metal of information into the gold of understanding and wisdom in their heart-minds. Since I heard about his passing, I am reminded a lot about the intense time we spent in prayer for him under the chestnut tree in front of Schumacher College after his heart literally opened up in front of us. I was in the 2001/02 cohort of the MSc in Holistic Science, when Brian nearly died in front of our eyes on the last day of teaching, while talking about the chaotic rhythms of the heart and open heart surgery. We all made a conscious decision then to hold a bridge open for him to come back – he was clinically dead a couple of times during his 9 hour surgery – and Brian returned, only six months later he was playing volleyball on the lawn in front of the college. I have no grieving left, just immense gratitude for all he has done, the thousands of people he touched as a person or through his work. I am deeply greatful Brain was granted an extra seven years and know many for whom these years where a very special time with him. I am sure his memory will live on in all of us for many years to come. I can close my eyes and see him in front of me – a wise Gandalf (Brian) the White still ready to give me meaninful advice or just a little wink with those glinty eyes. It took some time for those left behind to understand the full significance of the lives of Ficino or De La Mirandola in the brith of the Renaissance, so it might take some time for humanity to honour the true significance of one of the shining lights at the beginning of the Gaian Renaissance. Beyond the stars we will meet again, my friend. In gratitute …
— Daniel Wahl · Aug 20, 03:08 PM · #
I didn’t know Brian well. We chatted off and on when I was at Schumacher over the years. A few months ago he introduced me for a Wednesday evening talk. He was full of heart, possessing the intelligence that goes with a real human being. I was touched by his thoughtfulness and warmth. You could easily see his contemplative, humorous imagination in his face and in his body. I didn’t know him well, but I feel his loss.
— Thomas Moore · Aug 20, 10:56 PM · #
In my story Brian was a mentor, magician, rigorous scientist, unfailing optimist and fearless investigator of new realms. Most importantly though, he was simply my friend. My memories of him are many and incredibly varied: Brian up an apple tree, shaking down fruit to a host of MSc students holding blankets. Brian standing on a rock on the moor in the driving rain, the only one in our party without an umbrella or waterproof—reveling in the elements. Modeling the stages of embryonic development under his direction with a lurid pink lump of clay. Watching him swoop down to the back door of the Postern on his bicycle—always with a flourish. Listening to him play the piano every Sunday afternoon in the autumn term. Dancing the tango in floppy moccasins lashed to his feet with gold ribbon. Addressing an auditorium filled with scientists at a Paris conference and holding them spellbound. Standing as best man at our wedding. And many many nights discussing just anything over a glass of wine. And of course the honey and Armagnac! I simply can’t imagine life without him.
— Terry Irwin · Aug 21, 03:16 AM · #
Brian’s story is now our story.
— The Ancestors · Aug 21, 06:59 PM · #
On the 2005 short course “In Search of Earth Ethics” Brian was mentor for the small group “Snowdrops” (three of us). He was great fun at the soiree. His rigorous approach to education was impressive and I sought his advice on an educational matter. He left for Scotland within the hour and I never saw him again, but the impression of his powerful intellect remains.
— Martin Bienvenu · Aug 25, 06:45 PM · #
Namsate
Brian was a very good teacher; I have a great memory of him while I was there for the course of “in search of Earth Ethics” ;he will remain in my thoughts for ever; he had deep understanding of physics adn spirituality… his contribution will be always remembered…
May God bless him for his infinite journey…
love/prayers
CM Yogi
Nepal
— CM Yogi · Aug 26, 08:44 PM · #
I first knew Brian in the sixties, as the dashing Reader in Developmental Biology at the University of Sussex. At that time ‘Sussex’ was a place where you could thumb your nose at orthodoxy and be hailed for it. So he fitted in pretty well!
I remember being struck by an aura of romance.
He biked to work daily, 20 miles across the Downs. Fit as a fiddle, with his chiselled Amerindian features, even in his forties he was the heart-throb of the lady undergraduates.
Later I watched him go through all manner of explorations in which it was hard to separate the personal from the professional. He never stopped.
I particularly remember one weekend, must have been mid-80s, attending two conferences of unorthodox scientists that happened to be held on consecutive days. The first was the of old Marxists, class-warriors and political campaigners. Nice to see them all, I thought, old friends, but there’s something they’re not quite getting. Too academic, too theoretical, too impersonal.
The second conference was more home territory for me,of ‘alternative’ environmentalists and technologists. Again it was agreeable to be among friends, but I could not help feeling that, in trying to reach beyond mere theory, they had become lost in technical detail.
As it happened Brian lived near where the second conference was held so when it was over I just went to see him, it must have been for the first time in maybe 15 years. It was an enthralling evening; we disagreed about many things (and always did!) but as I left I remember thinking that he, unlike most of my other friends in “unorthodox science”, had achieved the right balance; that science would be better for more Brians, with a lively, lightly-worn knowledge linked in a thousand ways to other, and indeed “other”, realms of the human condition.
— Peter Harper · Aug 27, 04:31 PM · #
I first came to know Brian through a book he co-authored: ‘Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology’. I was mesmerized. Brian presented a view of living systems that actually included explanations of living systems! Ironically, yet far too prevalent, my academic studies in biology had eluded many questions on life: how the ‘whole’ is more than the sum of parts, or how meaningful (not deterministic) forms arise, or simply (most profoundly), how life emerges! Brian Goodwin, through the emergence of his own life, has touched and awakened and mesmerized so many…A dream come true for me when I spent a year at Schumacher, studying with Brian, exchanging ambiguity, creativity, curvature and love. Miss you.
— Laura Batson · Aug 28, 03:49 AM · #
Brian
as I already
think through your thoughts
see with your eyes
I became, partially, a spiritual son.
It feels good to be you
a cozy heart
so open to love
despite such a powerful mind.
You still look handsome, and strong
to me,
your soul was it.
Master of life
your theories of complexity
have made my life simpler
thanks Brian.
Thank you for your gifts.
I hope you had a happy life.
May the hipercomplexity of
the universe
now gives you joy and wonder
(between us, I know you are not dead).
Yours,
Alfredo
26-07-09
— Alfredo Erlwein-Vicuña · Aug 28, 04:42 AM · #
I first encountered Brian 22 years ago at a Gaia Symposium organized by Teddy Goldsmith in Cornwall and found it a great pleasure to meet a fellow biologist who really understood life because he did not reduce it to mechanism but probed deeply into living, intelligent organism. He was unique in teaching students not just the cellular and systemic organization of the organism but teaching them to deeply commune with living plants, for example, and compare the information achieved through both outer and inner research. For me he thus was a great pioneer of future science. May he continue good work on yet more marvelous levels of reality and shower blessings on us here!
— Elisabet Sahtouris · Aug 28, 01:26 PM · #
Brian was a very influential person in my life…I had the great privilege to study on the MSc at Schumacher and to spend quite a bit of time with him. He had many great teachings for which I am grateful. One particular thing he would say that stood out for me was that we should forget trying to find the meaning of life, and instead concentrate on living a life of meaning. I will remember him with great fondness.
— Ly Vaillancourt · Aug 28, 08:43 PM · #
I’ll remember the laugh and the twinkling eyes as his incisive creative conversations flowed across cups of morning tea, the entrance hall and especially the front courtyard. I will be in Cape Town, South Africa on the memorial day and will send warm wishes to you all at 2pm. May your memories of Brian and how he connected with your lives offer consolation. Svea
— Svea van der Hoorn · Aug 31, 09:23 AM · #
I remember inviting Brian to teach on the first module of the first cohort of the Hertfordshire Doctorate programme. He arrived with baskets of roses and handed everyone two stems. Slowly people discovered the different responses they had to finding that one was a rose and the other a silk artifact. That was how he began talking with management research students about the emergence of organic form. Since then we had the chance to work and be together on many occasions, particularly after he founded the Holistic Science Masters at Schumacher and I came to teach there a little. He was always willing to risk going somewhere new in his thinking while retaining such discipline of inquiry. I never tired of listening to the way he expressed complex ideas or enjoying his warm quiet company over a glass of wine or coffee. He became older with such grace and undimmed joie de vivre.
— Patricia Shaw · Sep 1, 11:59 AM · #
Brian is still so much a part of my story; I imagine his thoughts and way of be-ing will forever challenge and inspire me. Chaos, Gaia, Eros; complexity, coherence, ambiguity; food, drink, song, and dance; laughter; mischief. I miss him. But his death also feels like the striking of a bell, his life resonating right through me still. Yeah, live a life of meaning! Thank you Brian.
— Adam Croft · Sep 2, 03:15 AM · #
Thank your for your example… for your presence, your silence, your peace.
Thank you for showing us every moment how it is to live a Life with Meaning.
May we all follow your example and find the Meaning in our lives.
Travel well Brian.
— Damian Orvañanos · Sep 2, 06:42 PM · #
As a non scientist but with insatiable curiosity and deep love of the earth, I was one of the group of a three week course last January who were privilged to have the gift of a whole afternoon with Brian. To know him from his articles in Resurgance is one thing – to be in his company listening to his teaching is another. I was struck immediately by his presence, his deep humanity and the radiance of his heart. Apart from all too fleeting meetings with him during further visits to Schumacher, my other abiding memory will be watching the final of Wimbledon with
him and Kristel this summer. There was only one other couse particpant there and it was an afternoon of fun and laughter with achat over a meal at the end. Such brief encounters and yet I feel moved as if a friend has been lost. Such was his magic.
May you be dancing Brian in the fields of love you created. Your presence will always be felt at Schumacher.
Infinite blessings to you. –
Delphine Star
September 4th. 2.45pm
— Delphine Star · Sep 4, 02:47 PM · #
I met Brian on several occasions at the College; I was very drawn to his work, and feel fortunate to have been able to talk to him at some length every time I was at the College. On one of these occasions, he told my partner, Magda, and I about his near-death experience some time back, and about the feeling of fusing with the trees and with the stream of life as he was healed and brought back into life. Now he is forever part of that stream.
A couple of years ago I write a review of Brian’s last book, Nature’s Due. Healing Our Fragmented Culture; I started the review by saying how, upon reading the book, I thought of Brian as “a wise elder of an alternative West.” He was, in my mind, such a wise elder.
(I will be pleased to send the review to anybody who is interested; it was printed in the journal Development No. 51, 2008).
— Arturo Escobar · Sep 8, 02:41 AM · #
I didn’t know Brian at all well but had the privilege of meeting him at Schumacher. I remember him as a kind, gentle, unassuming man who wore his learning lightly. He was quicker to listen than to speak: a deeply thoughtful man and original thinker. The world is poorer without him.
— Nicky Britten · Sep 9, 03:25 PM · #
One day Brian & Christel gently arrived, together on their bikes, at my studio here at Dartington….we met over my workbench at the Cider Press Centre and struck up a most beautiful conversation. I really enjoyed meeting this amazing, inspirational couple and ultimately making their bespoke wedding rings. It was a specially rewarding commission for me as i got to know Christel (and their moving & beautiful story as a couple) very well. Although i couldn’t make it to their wedding ceremony i felt as though two very special rings were representing me in some small way. As i shall be away for the Memorial Celebration, I send my love to Brian’s friends & family…. especially to Christel… I shall always remember fondly the wonderful warm, gentle and natural way he made us all feel special.
— Kate Higham · Sep 10, 12:19 PM · #
I was one of 20 or so students who had the great privilege of traveling with Brian on a “Global Ecology” study trip in 1990-91. Everything said here captures my memory of Brian so well. Thank you for a wonderful and inspiring tribute to a truly wonderful and inspiring man. Brian – as you are now one with the incredible waters of Aqua Azul and all the waters and trees of the planet, may your kind, gentle, warm, loving, curious spirit live on in all of us.
— Bill Bosch · Sep 10, 05:53 PM · #
Thank you Brian for your creativity and immagination. Thank you for you kindness and joy for life. Thank you for your capacity to inspire. Thank you for existing, because we know that you are will stay with us.
Manfred Max-Neef
— Manfred Max-Neef · Sep 12, 04:01 PM · #
I did courses at Schumacher before and after Brian arrived as a teacher, and so observed the wonderful contribution he made to the evolution of the college, bringing wisdom and scholarship to the development of the Holistic Masters programme in particular. He had a great influence on my understanding of holistic science, and I will always remember the week-long programme he taught on Goethe’s Science as part of the Leonardo, Goethe and Bateson course. Indeed I will be replicating one of the experiential exercises he used at an experiential learning conference in Sydney in December, and it will be dedicated to him – the one with prisms, and black and white paper for exploring coloured light.
It was always a joy to talk with him at the college, and I will miss him greatly when I return, but his spirit will always be there. He made complexity seem somehow simple, but above all he made the reconnection of science to life in all its dimensions, and he lived these ideas as well. I wish I could be there to celebrate his life with his friends, but I will be thinking of him on that day and sending my love from Sydney, Australia.
— Roger Packham · Sep 15, 05:13 AM · #
Hearing Brian speak at an arts and science conference in the early 1990’s opened my eyes to a world of complexity, creativity and wonderment that changed my approach to work and life ever since.
I once heard him say just before a talk for art students at Falmouth University, what a pleasure it was to be of service, and that is an enduring sense I have – that he thoroughly enjoyed sharing his knowledge and immense insight into complex systems in nature through both a science and culture of qualities.
I also remember on a walk across Dartmoor with Brian and Christel the fun and sheer exuberance of shared stick throwing with my collie Tessa and how she knew this was something very special, and it was, unforgettable.
— Susan Derges · Sep 17, 08:55 PM · #
Brian introduced me to the splendours of Theoretical Biology in 1968 at Sussex University, and later helped me to pursue my interest in this at the University of Chicago. Much later he turned up as Second Professor of Biology at the Open University where I was finishing my PhD. Since soon after our first meeting, he has been my favourite scientist, and I was grateful that he casually and sincerely supported my move into energy medicine soon after I finished my PhD. In about 1990, I invited Brian to give a keynote speech at the 25th Anniversary Symposium of Kinesiologists in the UK, where he talked around the concept of Life existing at the borders of Order & Chaos. The last time I met Brian was at Shumacher College, which I suspect siited him better than more mainstream institutions, and as always he was fun and deeply loving. I am hugely grateful to have known Brian.
— Richard Beale · Sep 20, 08:48 AM · #
Brian was on the board of trustees for our charity. We asked him because we needed some eldership and insights about how organisationally we might learn from (and perhaps mimic) natural systems.
He had a gentle touch, nudging us this way or than, and his contributions were always heart-felt and valuable.
But he was more than that, I felt. I felt imspired to have him in the room and to have him supporting the work we were doing.
If I have half the vitality that Brian had in his later years, I’ll be very happy.
Goodbye Brian, with respect and deep appreciation of your gifts to the world. Ben.
— Ben Brangwyn · Sep 20, 09:41 AM · #
Although the below was written on the day of Brian’s passing, I submit this on the day of his Schumacher memorial – late for many to see but perhaps timely in some respect. There is so much to say that it had become clear in these weeks and recent days that words cannot seem to do much meaningful justice for the depth of feeling related to Brian’s transition. There are many memories which may want be shared later but for now continue to want to live within. Brian was eros in action, a catalyst for emergence, an aged man still open to learning and being vulnerable. He learned analytically, re-learned synthetically, and then taught (and lived) holistically. We liked talking about stories. I had learned about “our” personal stories years prior from an insightful life coach. When I came to Schumacher, he also spoke about stories, perhaps both personal and collective. My personal story today, and what I bring to the planet, has Brian embedded in it. The collective story has also been deeply enriched – touched and altered for the better – because of Brian Goodwin. I think, too, that his life force is still in action, creating… I want to publicly thank, Brian, for all he was and all he shared.
With continuing love, Erin
— Erin Scott · Sep 20, 09:32 PM · #
Brian was an inspirational man in so many ways: very quiet, humble, and engaging with good humour every time I met him when I attended short courses at Shumacher. He called me once to offer guidance during a troubled Msc at another Institution, and i will always remember him for his concern, as well as his ability to explain holistic science at a very real and (for my non-scientific mind) simple level.
— James Murray-White · Oct 2, 02:54 PM · #
brian is now supervising us through his energy…you cannot see him anymore phisically, but his help, discoveries, advices and motivations are in the air like pollin in spring…surrounding us…inside of every us.
— Maurizio Montalti · Oct 2, 05:22 PM · #
I first met Brian while working at the Center for Sustainable Futures at the University of Plymouth and again when I attended a short course at Schumacher College in February 2008. Always a kind and interesting man to be around. I will always remember preparing the evening meal with him and a group of others in Schumacher’s kitchen. A delicious chilli…afterwards he set me the task of washing up! Rest in peace, Brian. It was a privilege to have met you.
— Tom Stembridge · Oct 4, 10:45 PM · #
So many loving tributes to a beautiful man who enriched so many lives.
I studied with Brian at Schumacher College on 3 occasions.
Whenever we looked for inspiration, Brian would conjure up a new insight, often with a story. Brian believed in the magic of life and we came to believe in him as a magician as he showed us new ways of seeing and experiencing; that knowledge is not the rationalization of scientific analysis alone, it is also experiential knowing.
He was the most un-didactic of teachers, who invited us to join with him on journeys of discovery. That kind of magic lives on in those who new him and studied with him.
Brian lit the lamp of love to light our way.
— John Stone · Oct 5, 02:57 PM · #
Brian, I remember sitting in Schumacher library and listening to you tell us about your experiences while unconscious during/ after heart surgery. You inspired me then , in your clear connection to nature and the divine, as you inspire me now, as I know that you go on as a noble warrior for life. Go well my friend, I have many memories of you while at Schumacher on the MSc. Thank you for helping the world.
— Liz Turner · Nov 2, 09:51 PM · #