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I can’t now remember quite when I first met Hazel Henderson, who sadly died on 23 May, though it was certainly some time in the 1980s. Perhaps around The Other Economic Summit (TOES) time? In any event, it was a huge privilege to have her as a friend – and to serve for quite some years on her global advisory board at Ethical Markets, and on the judging panel for her EthicMark awards for advertising promoting sustainability values. This obituary in The Washington Post is better than anything I can do.

Returned on Saturday night from several days with the Volans team at the Lluc monastery in Mallorca. Hosted by Daniel Christian Wahl, on the right in the photo above. Our theme: regeneration. The aim to re-energise the team culture after the lockdowns of recent years. Emotional at times, but it worked wonders.

Delighted to see Green Swans out in Korean, with an interview published there this week, for those who read Korean.

Otherwise, life spins along. Did a panel session for the Edison Electric Institute in the USA yesterday, with Angela Wilkinson (Secretary General of the World Energy Council) and Jamie Arbib (founder, RethinkX).

Among other things have a memorial service for Mike Cooper this morning, a former submariner and maritime lawyer who was a long-time friend through our children, followed by a 3-hour meeting of the WWF Council of Ambassadors in Hanover Square and then dinner at the Conduit with Ipshita Mandal-Johnson, CEO of the Global Bio Fund.

Meanwhile, Volans is continuing to attract a good deal of interest – and our small team is growing. We are putting the whole team through John Fullerton’s Regenerative Economics course at the moment, where I’m on the faculty – and more or less all heading off to Mallorca early in May to spend several days with Daniel Christian Wahl.

And I continue to crank along with the interviews of Regenerators for the Green Swans Observatory. Among my favourite recent interviews is the one I did with Dr Christian Busch, author of The Serendipity Mindset and Connecting The Dots. When I get to 20-21, am planning to pull together an overview.

In other news, I have finished a late draft of the new book, and am now looking for a suitable literary agent. A strange feeling coming out the other side of the project, which has a much stronger autobiographical flavour than anything I have done to date. At times it feels a bit like Wile E. Coyote zooming off the cliff edge.

My trip report on our recent trip to Costa Rica can be found here. The third image shows the group we travelled with, including our guide and driver. We were seeing glimpses of a paradise while the Russian invasion turned parts of Ukraine into hell on Earth. Clashing worlds of regeneration (Costa Rica) and degeneration (Russia).

Spoke yesterday at IESE, the Madrid-based business school. An annual event for their 50,000-strong alumni network, this time focusing on sustainability. Some time since I have been to their campus and was impressed by their new complex of buildings, in which the event was housed. Met some great people who I plan to follow up with.

Then today I went walkabout in Madrid. Among the places I visited were CentroCentro (whose exhibitions I found somewhat muddy and disappointing), the Prado Museum (whose collection blew me away) and the Sorolla Museum (ditto).

Looking at the Prado exhibits through the eyes of Asian visitors I was following around at one point, it struck just how much of a death cult Catholicism has been, with assorted martyrdoms including everything from crucifixions, to arrows and rocks.

Pieter Bruegel’s The Triumph of Death was a painful reminder of just how brutish life could be in medieval times. And Goya’s execution images and Black Paintings rubbed the point in for recently modern times.

The religious painter whose work has always leaped out for me – and did so again today – is El Greco. Weird, extruded, exquisite. Plus I liked Flevit Super Ilam by Enrique Simonet Lobado. Plus some of the royal portraits, amid all the assorted thuggery and ugliness, were striking – including the Velasquez renderings of Philippe III and Felipe IV.

But there were real delights in the midst of it all, too, including several Sorolla paintings, with Boys on a Beach particularly eye-catching. I was so taken by them that, having turned away from a long queue outside the Sorolla Museum in the morning (it is only 7 minutes from my hotel), I went back there – to find no queue at all around 16.00, and entry free.

A really joyous place with a stunning collection of his paintings, including the bathing horse and women walking on a beach.