Omricon, fear and crowd psychology. Jay Bhattacharya and the catastrophic errors of public health. Grieving memories of Stuart Macintyre. Szymborska on what matters. Paul Kingsnorth on fear, tyranny and the vaccine wars. Elena Shvarts on both hopelessness and hope.
Tag Archives: Szymborska
Taking time with Szymborska
I have established several practices for the New Year to make it a more mindful, culturally enriched and satisfying year than the plague year of 2020, now buried in an urn of oblivion. I have begun a bullet journal to record habits, moods, and experiences, and in which to write the plans and dreams ofContinueContinue reading “Taking time with Szymborska”
A postscript on Utopia
Coincidentally – a word that tricks chance into being fate – I was reading this week Maria Popova’s account of Wisława Szymborska’s celebration of not knowing. Szymborska said, in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, that it is from the humility of not knowing that inspiration comes – in any profession, not merely writing: “InspirationContinueContinue reading “A postscript on Utopia”