Hope

On Seasons

Ode argues compellingly that marking time with natural rhythms and seasons can grow compassion and commitment to all life. The underlying wistfulness and enhanced "sensitivity to the passage of the seasons" is embodied in the likes of Monty Don, who combines a kanyini-like love for the soil and place, with a sense of gratitude that seems to come "from the other side of sorrow and despair".

Halcyon In Kaleidoscope

posted on 20 March 2012

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On Economics

Of Mice and Men - redux? Chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession can have in our day and age might suggest so, yet the blooming sunflower might suggest too that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper typically put it so lyrically, "through all destruction flies new dawn".

By 2012, there were many such sunflowers emerging, displaying a wide variety of proposed "antidotes to the pessimism of the post-crisis world". And if you'd like to hear further constructive suggestions for our way ahead economically, we would recommend that you also listen to the following podcasts: ...read more

Halcyon In Kaleidoscope

posted on 28 February 2012

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On T.S. Eliot

The Wasteland and Modernity tried to figure out whether someone who captured modern life so well could really dislike it so much. When he stared out at a world of radio and cinema, of radical art and universal suffrage, did T.S. Eliot really see only a barren, featureless plain?

Perhaps listening to Eliot himself read The Wasteland can give us clues? ...read more