About the Author
Miranda Green is a writer, activist and creative with a keen sense of social and environmental justice issues and a vision for civilisational renewal that involves fundamental change across all our institutions of power.
Miranda’s initial focus in the visual arts has been working in the textile and millinery fields which has now expanded to the written word, image making and graphic design. Miranda authored “A milliner’s tale: a contemporary hat story” in 2006 and is currently working on an exhibition that furthers her social and environmental activism.
A self-taught, stitched textile, millinery designer Miranda has sold to various department stores around Australia and works with individual clients overseas. Participating in New York Fashion Week with a 36 piece couture millinery collection and focused on ethical business transactions and a ‘profit for purpose’ business model, Miranda set up an R & D workshop in 2004 in Northern India. Her aim .. to create ethical workshops employing Tibetan refugee women in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala.
From Micro to Macro
I have spent much of my adult life focused on making sense of the crazy ‘goings on’ between my ears. Through necessity, these excursions into the inner realms have been a lifelong quest for me, as I extricate myself from the grips of my dysfunctional beginnings.
When I finally surfaced from decades of ‘breakdown and breakthrough’ … that ongoing journey from crisis to mental wellbeing.
When I was sufficiently strong enough to stand firmly in the external world, in my mid 30s, what I discovered was an equally dysfunctional world on the outside. A world at war with itself, at odds with nature, and dangerously asymmetrical.
A largely Left-Brained world hurtling us towards our own destruction.
My reading is a search for alternatives. My writing is the synthesis of what I have learned and how we might move forward.
“It may be my observations and experience, of the dynamics of the inner life, that are the most unique area of my expertise brought to bear on the larger narrative ‘how are we to live’”.