Invincible Summer

The British Psychoanalytic Association invited me to address its Poetic Mind seminar on Eliot, shame and environmentalism.

A homily for the summer solstice The Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel asked me to deliver a short homily on the summer solstice for today’s Sunday Service.

Notes on post-secular – 3: In the face of environmental and societal collapse, T.S.

Britain helped found the postwar legal order — and should be judged by the standards it helped create.

To Ottolenghi in Islington last night to meet neighbour Inge Cordsen before seeing the revival of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at the Almeida Theatre.

Find your ride You can travel on almost anything Dear Nigel It is Nigel, isn’t it?

The mission of the Global Compassion Connectors Refugees crossing from Syria into Turkey — HUFFPOST The mission of the Global Compassion Connectors is to create a caring and compassionate society.

Raven and the First Men by Bill Reid, Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art Dear Carissa Thanks for the Accidental Gods podcast links.

Once again, I recognise the face but the name’s not there.

Education is essential.

Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Hero of the Soviet Union Later this month I’ll join Jem Bendell and Katie Carr’s course Leading Through Collapse.

— I’m at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Masset circa 1876, © Gordon Miller, 1985, Canadian Museum of History From A Story as Sharp as a Knife Swanton’s hope, as he has told us, was to transcribe every story, or every mythic episode, told in Haida Gwaii.

We are at war with Modernity and must look to our defence.

and when you pack a duffel bag and plan on the gratuitous — Marilyn Hacker I’d been dreaming about it all winter, as my body healed from the surgery last summer.

I am the long world’s gentleman, he said, And I make my bed with Capricorn and Cancer. — Dylan Thomas Over a month on the road.

The Invincible Summer from the ancient netbook webcam † Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin q’il y avait en moi un été invincible. — Albert Camus Feels like it has been a long winter.

Your next lawyer might be an AI chatbot.

What is a life?

Ben Jennings in The Guardian Marina Hyde in the The Guardian yesterday: She was widely held to have embodied virtues whose absence in public life is increasingly evident.

Rory Stewart says he won’t return to parliamentary politics unless he can tell the truth about our future.

A reading list for the end of our world The times they are a-changing.

Isobel Dick Macdonald, née Patrick (1930-05-24 to 2022-07-21) Friday 22 July My mother, Bel Macdonald, died peacefully yesterday morning at her home in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire.

Waking wounded BY HAND 22 July 2022 Dr S.

Tasting the invincible summer Last summer leaving Britain seemed difficult and imprudent.

The librarian’s song This article, and the accompanying code, is on GitHub.

Whose sandals are these?

I was there when it happened.

It must have been the fox.

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Poland is a country that from time to time has emerged from the mists of history, but always in a different place. — Len Deighton, Blitzkrieg Lviv (Lwów when it was in Poland) is a city in western Ukraine.