Stars

Getting out to the wilder places offers one of the great anchors of sanity for me. It is, when night falls, the opportunity to gaze at the stars. The swathe of black, the inky night punctuated by the engine of light that is the Milky Way and the myriad sweep of constellations scattered like a [...]

Virtue

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.” Baruch Spinoza, and why not? Like happiness, there are virtues, qualities and states which are themselves descriptions of states of being. These are beings rather than doings. We don’t do certain things, they are [...]