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Where to find meaning in this muddle of confusion, in the way our brain clings to binary reasoning and heuristics and paradoxes? This week’s poem points us towards a conclusion that perhaps meaning is in the act of merely existing.
Jun 15, 2023
8 min

Authority, identity, causality, being able to view your role and privilege through the lens of another - these all feels like very modern, very meta concerns. But are they? Around roughly 800 CE, in China's Tang dynasty, Bao Juyi wrestled with these same concerns, with both an incisiveness and lightness that might be instructiveness for our modern, digitally fractured culture.
May 30, 2023
9 min

Yeats and the important of voice, or how to turn a quiet moment of reflection into a journey through time and space, and yet you never feel like you left your rocking chair.
May 17, 2023
6 min

What is the power of symbolic language, particularly about so old a topic as love and heartbreak?
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure
Les jours s’en vont je demeure
May 3, 2023
6 min

For the inaugural episode of the Multi-Verse podcast, we look at poem 1263 by the inimitable Emily Dickinson, and ask about our relationship to the truth.
Apr 21, 2023
4 min
