13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat (II): the three-eyed raven
I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. Wallace Stevens,…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat: vigilance amidst stillness
Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. (Wallace Stevens,…
13 ways of looking at a bureaucrat
“Psychoanalysts don’t usually write essays; they tend to write lectures or papers or chapters, or what…
The eternal triangle: love, art and work
It seems that after all Sigmund Freud did not say that the goal of therapy or…
The revolutionary
Revolutionary lost its threat as a word sometime in recent decades. Revolutionary is now just another…
On reading ambitions
It should be known that the above-mentioned hidalgo, during the periods when he was idle –…
Massacres in history
As the violence and brewing disorder of our times disturbs us, we can readily fall into…
The unravelling of empires
US and western leaders have to find better ways to satisfy their people’s demands. It looks,…
Travelling in Vietnam
I have not posted for a month because I have been travelling on a family holiday…
Life expectancy
Here is a poem I wrote, prompted by estimates of rising life expectancy across most of…