“By looking up, I see downward.” – Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Danish nobleman, astronomer, astrologer & alchemist Monday, 14 December 2020 was the only Total Eclipse of the
“The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things
Dandum semper est tempus: ueritatem dies aperit. (We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discovers truth) – Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC–
“there is a treasure, if you can only find it, in the heart of every man” Winston Churchill, July 1910, Parliament This year, Easter is
“Give me the occasional luxury, and I will forgo the essentials.” (T.E. Lawrence, in a letter to a friend in the 1930s sent from his
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Seneca: Letters to Lucilius Unlike
glowing coals meantime exhibit the shifting forms of hills and vales and gulfs…and walled towns appear, and figures of unknown animals, and far-distant countries…and forms
If the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, Look and Learn was another world. They came bundled by the dozen, tied
‘Long-winded disputes fill up the place of common sense and candid inquiry’ William Hazlitt, ‘On the Conduct of Life: or, Advice to a school-boy. (c.
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