Write it out: the practice of long-hand

Learning about words, and life, from writing and copying long-hand.

The square and the circle

Viewing the earth from different perspectives.

The Healing Place of Trees in Art (Timothy Kircher, Sartle.com)

Finding health in the art of nature.

Chaucer and Chinese Medicine: the walking cure

Geoffrey Chaucer’s most famous work, The Canterbury Tales, describes the…

The Renaissance is closed: a tale of our times during the coronavirus.

Note: This is by way of…

Gardens and the Healing Arts

How artists display the cultivation of health.

The ghosts of Rome

An essay on what inspiration from the past, and the humanities, still have to offer us in our busy lives.

The humanities need no case.

Its importance is more basic than its advocates or critics realize.

The ghosts of Rome: returning home. Reflections in the twilight of another year.

Up A Tree: Humanities and Healing

Feeling rooted in a time of fragmentation.