Regular observations and conversations on ways the humanities serve, or fail to serve, the greater good.
The ghosts of Rome: returning home
Finding bright company in the inner world of the spirit during the winter season.
Jousting with Judgmentalists
Sir Felix encounters a new group of censorious simpletons, and defeats their leader in a joust.
Up A Tree
Feeling rooted in a time of fragmentation.
Write it out
Learning about words, and life, from writing and copying long-hand.
Fables for early spring
Changes in nature, including our own, beneath the surface.
Losing history
That the crisis of the humanities, and the loss of history, comes here and to us all.
The Two Ponds
A old fable that speaks to our busy lives here and now.
Chaucer and Chinese medicine
How Chaucer's pilgrims enact the walking cure in springtime crisis, in line with Chinese medicine.
The Renaissance is closed
How the coronavirus shows that the Renaissance is closed, and how we may recover it.
The Humanities App
How an app for the humanities would help us understand the greater wholeness in technology.