THE JOURNAL
Essays, cultural commentary emotional cartography.
The communal spread is a signal of trust dating as far back as ancient civilisations. After the hunting and the foraging, the preparation and meal-making, humans have routinely come together to take share in sustenance. Across nations, families, tribes, traders and travellers, convene around the table, forming a social agreement that affirms safety through shared satiety. To eat together, historically, has been to belong.
THE COMMUNAL SPREAD
Contentment is not the absence of movement but the absence of inner turmoil. It invites us to act from sufficiency, not scarcity. We celebrate our wins and accept our losses while staying firmly rooted in trust.
ON CONTENTMENT
There’s a stretch of time between what was and what will be. A foggy, formless space without shape, structure or routine…. this pause is referred to as the liminal space; a threshold between the transformation of identities, the crossing between life’s many chapters. Neither here nor there, it’s a space many of us find ourselves in as we traverse the winding roads of life. We can feel unsettled and vulnerable in this untethered calm.
ON TRANSITIONS
Books, the ability to produce and read them, have long marked the vitality of civilisations…For centuries, knowledge in Europe was the property of the few. In medieval Britain, books were chained to monastery walls, the ability to read them reserved for priests and princes. A people who cannot read their own story are a people who are easily persuaded of someone else’s. This gradual decay of literacy has resurfaced today, not through lack of access to knowledge, but through a willing neglect of it.
ON WISDOM