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I am Approaching Sixty: Thinking about the Creative in Myself.

I am currently reading two rather bizarre and somewhat eccentric travel books (and yes, I always end up reading more than one book at any one time, it comes with living in two different places). The first is Rose Macaulay’s Towers of Trebizond. The opening sentence, with its reference to both high mass and camels,Continue reading “I am Approaching Sixty: Thinking about the Creative in Myself.”

Playing with the Big Boys (and Girls)

Last week in the Life Scientific on Radio 4, the interviewee spoke of his early career following troops of chimpanzees in Uganda. He was particularly struck by one young male, who was named Jingo. This chimp was not particularly large, but he was fast, and he played a particular role in the hunting parties ofContinue reading “Playing with the Big Boys (and Girls)”

Celebrating Easter 2020

Just before Easter I had a zoom conversation with a Muslim professional. He said that he had read that I was a man of faith and therefore asked how I was going to celebrate Easter. I replied that Easter was the highlight of the Christian year, more so than Christmas, and that it was aContinue reading “Celebrating Easter 2020”

Once Upon a Time

As I begin this blog, I have just finished reading Tomoko Masuzawa’s In Search of Dreamtime, The Quest for the Origin of Religion. So, what better place to begin than on origins. Masuzawa wonders at the way in which the modern study of religion has rejected the nineteenth century obsession with origins as an explanationContinue reading “Once Upon a Time”