Chapter 28. Love (second and final part)
If, as I claim, love is a ‘natural duty’, does the rest of nature love? Some creatures are monogamous, others aren’t; some have sex...
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Jan 17, 2023
Chapter 27. Love
love Regarding others like the self, while realising that others are not necessarily like the self, is comprehension. ...
Jan 11, 2023
Chapter 26. Praise (final part incl. 'joyance everywhere')
Wonder and fulfilment are still available – ‘a happiness there is, and it is my desire to enjoy it,’ as Traherne says: there will need to...
Jan 10, 2023
Chapter 25. Praise (part III incl. Bill Clinton)
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves, Missing so much and so much? O fat white woman whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through...
Jan 3, 2023
Chapter 24. Praise (part II incl. a cookmaid)
‘We inhabit, we are part of a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small,’ writes Marilynne Robinson. Our conscious...
Jan 2, 2023
Chapter 23. Praise
The Four Natural Duties (being Love, Creativity, Haecceity and Praise) praise What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God?...
Dec 29, 2022
Chapter 22. So, What? (part II)
As we all know, shit happens. Our education system aims to prime us with qualifications so that we can get the job we want with the...
Dec 29, 2022
Chapter 21. So, What?
Why might our seven realisations be relevant or important? The world is facing a range of problems caused by human activity – climate...
Dec 20, 2022
Chapter 20. Sir Thomas Browne Considers the Question
Have the Nine survived scrutiny? Perhaps you may say I have probed them with cotton buds rather than lasers or scalpels – I know what you...
Dec 20, 2022
Chapter 19. Acceptance equals Imagination
I am sitting in my garden again, for perhaps the last warm evening of the year. The deckchair was packed away weeks ago, and the sun has...
Dec 15, 2022
Chapter 18. Uniqueness Means Equality (part II)
Just as the universe is said to be still expanding from that first Big Bang fourteen billion years ago, life is expanding and ramifying...
Dec 15, 2022
Chapter 17. Uniqueness Means Equality
For everything that lives is holy. (Blake) When people come to speak to me, whatever they say, I am struck by a kind of incandescence in...
Dec 7, 2022
Chapter 16. Nature is Perfect
anyway, at this point, though a chasm has opened between my feelings and the thoughts that should seem to follow from my STA epiphany, I...
Dec 7, 2022
Chapter 15. Ipsy interlude
It was when I had reached this stage of the book that Ipsy was killed. There are too many cars driving too fast for a cat to live safely...
Nov 30, 2022
Chapter 14. Acceptance (part II)
Nature and all the creatures in it were not, of course, labouring under their own inadequacy until, in the seventeenth-century, we...
Nov 30, 2022
Chapter 13. Acceptance
And I have felt a Presence … something far more deeply interfused Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns And the round ocean and the...
Nov 23, 2022
Chapter 12. We Are Part of This
That vital spark from inanimate matter to animate life happened once and once only, and all living existence depends on that moment. We...
Nov 23, 2022
Chapter 11. God Bewildered
Wofully araide My blode, man, For thee ran, It may not be naide: My body blo and wanne, Wofully araide. Thus nakyd am I nailid, O man,...
Nov 16, 2022
Chapter 9. We Ignore This (part III)
View at Epsom (Tate Galleries) John Constable’s tutor loved the pastoral scenes of the old masters, quite unaware that the sepia tones he...
Nov 16, 2022
Chapter 10. We Ignore This (final part)
A BRIEF DIGRESSION ON UNIFIED LIVES Introducing Pandaemonium, his remarkable documentary account of the Industrial Revolution, the author...
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