The world is hard enough as it stands. We all carry burdens, and most of us will eventually stumble under the weight of physical decline, mental strain, or spiritual confusion. That is the shared condition—problems are not optional. Yet there is a difference between carrying those burdens and becoming a burden; between being flawed and […]
I believe it was Paul Verlaine who once opined that “l’application c’est le plupart de l’intelligence” but without struggle, without the broken, breaking symmetries and dissociative, alienating furnace of experience and entropy, nothing is learned, nothing is gained and intelligence (as much as life) uselessly dissipates into all oblivion and forgetting. What, then, to say […]
Christmas Eve: a lonely walk around my neighbourhood where I captured these glorious sunflowers basking in the last rays of one of those long slow Summer’s afternoons that seem to sidestep evening and slide straight into night. It’s been a spectacularly difficult year for everyone and while I can’t see this changing at scale in […]
Daedelus Kite 