Located and alive
What a great way to spend a day, a perfectly Daoist state. Hoping you can also take in the brilliant...
Defining moments
It has always interested me how life can turn on a sixpence, for better and worst. Adam Bede is one...
Affluence of life and certainty of flow
How about that for a well-wishing phrase to fling into the world! May you enjoy both affluence of life and...
Leaves lapping at your feet
The Runaways is a bestellar children’s book I will review on these pages. And Ambrose the dream uncle, though you...
Poems for my family 006 – Cavafy
This poem has been in my mental saddlebags for about a quarter of a century. I can't remember how I...
Will to live or fear of death?
This refers to the looming death of the Brideshead patriarch, surrounded by his family. I was struck by the implication...
Life wasn’t made to be …
This quotation has become a companion, a reminder that life is – or at least should be - bigger than...
On living forever
Listening time: 2 minutes. This long and winding quotation enchanted me to the extent that I wrote it out...
Life lived as a rose trellis
One of Rilke's translators used this surprising and touching metaphor to describe him. I like the idea of being -...
The book of life
'A million species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction. Three-quarters of the world's land and two-thirds of its...
Trauma recollects forward
Harold Bloom refers here to Esther in Dickens’ Bleak House. I’ve been turning over in my mind his statement that...
Life & understanding
Food for thought this one. Does it mean you are more alive when you are most baffled by it all?...
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