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The Lost Art of Loving the Fans
What do fans of football and Lord of the Rings have in common? As they left behind the darkened tunnel and stepped onto the bright pitch, the players felt overjoyed that the time had finally come. At last, after all the restrictions, fans were back in the stadium. The roar of the crowd – however […]
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The Sarcasmonster
The king was once a prince and the prince was once bullied, He was mocked and mocked until jokes themselves were sullied. So when he lost his father and was crowned king, He began to feel every joke was a barb aimed at him. Little by little he stamped out all humour, Until the kingdom […]
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Twilight of the Emperors
Welcome to the brief inertia before the long fall. That moment where we sense the comfortable weightlessness after the steady crush of upwards motion. The old emperors ruling their respective lands have been overthrown or else their agents have grown fat and absent of duty. We the people raid their cellars and grow drunk on […]
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The Lost Art of Discussing Racism
“Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer […]
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The Lost Art of Grace and Calm
The prominence of DiAngelo and Thunberg is troubling. Their diatribes in video and print have been received gratefully by many. They both enjoy an extreme popularity – a reverence even – from the politically left in the same way Trump enjoys from the die-hard right. Biographies on the two characters typically take a fawning, uncritical […]
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Tomorrow’s Tears. My Brush With PTSD And Burnout.
I took July off. I had finally had enough. I had a bone-deep weariness that no weekend off could shake. I cared little for my patients. I was short tempered with my family. I felt breathless. I slept badly. Old memories were haunting me. I work frontline for the ambulance service in England. It’s been […]
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The Lost Art of Nuance
Insight. Volume. Pick one. Have you ever tried to shout a message? Like at a concert when you’re right next to someone but it’s so loud you have to shout at the top of your lungs. Almost every word requires a full breath. It’s impossible to utilise the subtleties of intonation. Public discourse seems not […]
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The Lost Art of Holding Things in Tension
‘Cancel culture’ is is a natural reflex for avoiding the difficult task of taming reality.
This is The Lost Art Life 