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You could call it your life. You could. Life's not answering to that, though. Life's not even listening. I've written a few books, but I'm no writer. Writers as I imagine them probably gather a life together that serves the writing, or tolerates it. Or they go without one, so they can write. That's not...

War is hell, the trustworthy adage goes. Most people who've been don't talk about it much. Most of our language can't do it justice. That says more about our language than it does about war, maybe. These days are something like war, I'm guessing. No enemy of the usual kind hunts us down, no matter...

Simon Drew interviews Stephen Jenkinson on Logos, Poetry & Prophecy About Simon Drew Simon Drew is an Australian Alignment Coach, musician and host of the Practical Stoic Podcast. On this show he interviews some of the most influential thinkers in Stoicism and philosophy today, including Massimo Pigliucci, Donald Robertson, Ryan Holiday, Gregory Lopez, Sharon Lebell, Gregory...

This is from the invocation that has kicked off every Night of Grief and Mystery that Gregory Hoskins and I have done over the last few years. Seems to fit these days and nights, too. Recorded my part here at the house. Hoskins did his stuff at the studio in Guelph. https://youtu.be/3YSnYUGKHfI

Let’s say you’re in lock down, because you were ‘exposed’. Or maybe it's because your boredom has succumbed to your concern for the common good. So, whaddya mean, “Let’s say you’re in lock down”? No, no. You’re in lock down. You’re looking out the window, at the sight of nothing new. No? Then that’s the...

I've been asked hundreds of times to sign personal copies of Come of Age, and I'm glad to do it. More than glad. I see to it that each inscription is very close to prayer, outright. Not always a prayer for something, mind you. Rarely that. Just as often it is a prayer to...

Thank you to everyone who helped raise $749.70 for RAVEN Trust and their work raising legal defence funds to assist Indigenous Peoples who enforce their rights and title to protect their traditional territories. RAVEN Trust, through their public education programs, collaborates with Indigenous Peoples to eliminate environmental racism and foster a greater understanding of...