Adam deVille on failing to understand Marx and Freud
A month ago I featured long segments from a post by Adam DeVille on the romanticisation of monasticism. Again, here is another post worth reading in full. What makes this post important…
Category: commonplace book
Leandro Herrero: “An enlightened top leadership is sometimes a fantastic alibi for a non-enlightened management to do whatever they want”
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
From Leandro Herrero’s website, a “Daily Thought” which I am going to take the liberty of quoting in full: Nothing is more rewarding than having…
Preferring soiled banknotes to new
A little snippet from the Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion blog , taken from an article promisingly titled “Micro Insurance Claim Payments through Pre-paid Cards: Technology and Regulation Driven…
Hannah LeGrand (and Dante) on sloth, thoughtlessness, intellect and reason
At Comment Magazine, an essay by Hannah LeGrand on “thoughtlessness, sloth, and the call to think.” It is well worth reading and reflecting on. LeGrand begins with Hannah Arendt’s famous account…
Birthplace of St Columba, Gartan, Donegal
Traditionally, St Columba’s birthplace was near Lough Gartan, Church Hill, Co Donegal. Church Hill is a village near Glenveagh National Park, and is on the fringes of the Derryveagh…
From “The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries From a Hidden World”, Peter Wohlieben
Scent as a means of communication? The concept is not totally unfamiliar to us. Why else would we use deodorants and perfumes? And even when we’re not using these products,…
From “The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter”, Colin Tudge
Perhaps this is why we feel so drawn to trees. Groves of redwoods and beeches are often compared to the naves of great cathedrals: the silence; the green, filtered, numinous…
From “The Long, Long Life of Trees”, Fiona Stafford
In spring, you can feel life stirring in the barest twigs and the silhouetted catkins look as if a diminutive duck has run across the sky. One day the…
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