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Who do you pray to? According to Genesis 1:27, God made us in his image. In 1977, Genesis wrote "I was feeling part of the scenery / I walked right out of the machinery".[1] These are both powerful statements which speak to how and why we worship what we do: we find the numinous in... Continue Reading →
A short post exploring the world outside my window... and by 'outside my window' I mean 'I can't see this because it's outside my field of vision, let's get a new window.' Kanazawa I fell in love with Kanazawa when I visited it in 2024. Apparently since then it has become famous as 'unspoilt Kyoto',... Continue Reading →
EDC - stationery edition THE CASE I am not a huge believer in pencil cases: I love things that come in cute tins, boxes, pouches etc, and so typically I reappropriate those types of things whenever I need to store anything. My old pencil case was a box that some Taylor Swift merch came in,... Continue Reading →
You can do better than mediocrity.
In which Raoul experiences the pangs of depression.
The purpose of this article is only to tell you I'm not a robot, but it's maybe made me feel worse? I write this on behalf of my secretive account, to let you know I am not AI and do not use AI for so much as prompts or punch-ups for articles. If anything, my... Continue Reading →
I had an epiphany recently: this *gestures* is all noise. I've been confusing it for influence, ideas, and insight, but I am getting nothing from it, and neither are you.
How can you educate when your own education was a lifetime ago? I recently had the obligation of transcribing for a young student during an exam. Like any educator I find acting as a scribe difficult: your role in this context is to write exactly what they say, ask no leading questions, and not comment... Continue Reading →
My job is strange. For World Book Week, I encouraged several of our staff[1] to read out stories rooted in their own heritage to my students. All my colleagues, however, are incredibly busy, so I agreed to source the stories. I am not the kind of librarian to do things by half, so what follows... Continue Reading →
I can't be the only one stuck in this loop... Oh god, do I want off the internet. The list of things I need a phone to do is so small that I am seriously considering going back to a 2013 Blackberry. My ability and desire to read, write, and communicate have been improved by... Continue Reading →
Late Romantic 