Month: September 2026
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Life is a play in two acts: dependence and interdependence
There was once a time when I yearned for independence; when I got it, however, independence was too lonely, too risky and I felt vulnerable on the shaky pedestal I had constructed. I longed for those times when I had someone to lean on; someone to consult. Life is like that, though: it is based…
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Are you sure?
Sometimes I wonder if I am becoming a sceptic; I am unsure whether it should be spelled with a ‘c’ or a ‘k’, but that’s to be expected, I think: in an age where certainty is currency, doubt has become a radical act.[i] In a way, I think social media is to blame; it’s all too…
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Presume not that I am the thing I was.
There are fleeting moments when, far from becoming more clear, they shimmer with meaning not shape, appreciation not fact; they cease to be describable in numbers, or equations; the very fact of their existence is a revelation, a mystery: a glimpse just outside a border; an unrepeatable event, new each time it occurs… ‘It is …
