11 years with WordPress – from the archive: Good Government Starts Today
Earlier this week I got a message from WordPress that I had passed my 11th anniversary…
Reflections on the emergence of Jordan B Peterson
#1 – One recent Jordan B Peterson podcast is his appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival….
Renovating the Burning Archive
I have spent the morning renovating the Burning Archive. A new theme changes the look and…
Craft, voice and the fire
“We all know poetry isn’t a craft that you can just turn on and off. It…
A thousand thanks
Some time in the last couple of weeks the counter on my wordpress visitor stats clocked…
Fragments on tradition
Today’s cultures are both disintegrating and proliferating. Any writer has to hand the near infinite profusion…
The reenchantment of the world
This morning I feel stuck for words. A heat wave has exhausted me, and the end…
More reflections on 2017: persistence, terror and Das Schloss
Persistence Twelve months ago I was approaching Christmas and the end of a liberating period of…
Reflections on 2017
The year is drawing to a close, and while it is yet weeks from New Year,…
Self-portrait in a time of hunger
“The storm of progress now threatens to burn the remaining archives of human memory. In an…