Most thinkers who have reflected upon human fulfillment, on the finding of meaning in life have told us that “work”, particularly creative, intellectual, world-shaping activity is integral to that. For centuries, while expected, as wives, helpers, housekeepers, muses, to produce…
Virginia Woolf
Eugene Atget and Christoper Alexander
The Parenthetical: A Dance of the Mind
by Adam Hochschild
by Mike Davis
One Foot in Laos by Dervla Murphy chronicles a trip taken in the late 1990s, when she was already well into her sixties. If you love good travel…
All my writings tend to be about memory and loss, but also about sense of place and the strong link between the body and the physical (including…
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