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“Firm ground is not available ground” — why building one’s religion and philosophy on sand rather than rock might actually be a very good idea

Mothering Sunday—The mother of matter is the matter of the mother—A poetic, supreme fiction for our age

A new-materialist meditation woven around four poems by Lucretius, A. R. Ammons, Joseph Blanco White, and Mary Oliver—‘It is only enough to touch the inner light of each surrounding thing and hope it will itself be stirred to radiance’

Staying Alert in the company of Lucretius on Fen Ditton Meadows

A Lucretian, Mothering Sunday meditation

Learning from Lucretius in the shadow of coronavirus