How to help a bird fly
Wise words for human lives, all the more poignant for watching fledglings make mistakes and still persist in flying, even...
Seek and you shall find … something
A piece of sage advice - you will always find something if you look. But is it what you (thought...
One thing at a time
Saint-Exupery zooms in on the limited reach of our consciousness, with a manifest personal example.
The field of consciousness...
Poems for my family 002 – Frost
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
This is the second poem I chose to share with my family, in what will...
Newly born, oldly wise
A lilting double simile here, each with a timeless simplicity. Let's add them to the common stock and start to...
A country or a farm
A profound distinction, in my view, between a sum of parts and a sum of gifts. And does this just...
The root of all wisdom
This is surely the crux of Brideshead Revisited and its most arresting, limpid quotation. It comes quite early in the...
Wisdom for a merrier world
Not a bad outline of what it would take to make the world merrier: the simple enjoyment of food, cheer...
As wise as …
As many court fools were dwarfs, and fools could be wise, I was struck by this reference to being as...
What is more praiseworthy than truth?
A question that resonates strongly today as we become accustomed to new tropes such as 'alternative facts'. Erasmus' masterpiece, first published...
Definitions of philosophy II
I read and think quite a bit. However, when it comes to Western philosophy, it has always felt like a...
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