Ideas

Writing a book on love

I read a book the other day that is very popular with people who are looking for answers to universal questions. The…

Don’t turn our backs on the Brothers Grimm

She’s getting carried off to the evil witch, captured by her demon monkeys who were…

The woman-tree with a dog

An image was stuck in my head. I saw a single tree in the distance. A dog stood beneath it. The vista was all…

Leaving the viewer a changed person: Irving Penn

“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, and…

Language shattered into a multiplicity

To put it even more bluntly: whereas one would have expected that a crisis of literacy would…

Doing math like William Blake

[caption id=”attachment_2623" align=”aligncenter” width=”464" caption=”William Blake’s Newton (1795), colour print with pen & ink and watercolour”]

Individuation

… All these moments in the individual’s life, when the universal laws of human fate break in upon the purposes, expectations, and…

The parable of the three gifts

The question you have to answer is whether you hold yourself away or throw yourself in; whether you…

Old Jon stands by the trash heap

This is where I am:

The wire outline

I was at lunch with an artist today and asked him about his work.