Photo by Sean Stratton on Unsplash I was thinking about private and public spaces today. I wrote not long ago that we need to be careful about processing our raw emotions in public, where we can trigger others and contribute to the escalation of general public mayhem. And this new collections adventure felt like blurring the boundaries between the private and the public. Am I adding any value, or just creating more noise? What I realised is that it's not a binary. There's

Image by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash Today I'm thinking, not for the first time, that secular modern science gave up too easily on spirituality. We consigned it to the religious institutions far to early. It is a blaspheme for a serious scientist to suggest things like researching spirituality, and as a consequence, all research of spirituality is done in disciplines and institutions that are not known for their rigorous scientific enquiry. Why does this matter? Because human

Image b y Tim Cooper on Unsplash I've been thinking about marketing lately. I want people to read my book. I want people to read my newsletter, and mostly, I want them to reply to the newsletter and tell me what they think. I'm a lousy marketer--I think--because I much prefer listening over talking. The social media state of people shouting to get attention exhausts me. But I also live in the real world, and I understand that there are people out there who would love my book