CAUTE — Making Footprints Not Blueprints

Weekend greetings from Emmanuel Road and a couple of things to think about connected with radical hope and radical patience . . .

“To be quiet in the hands of the marvellous”—an intra-active meditation on part of Ammons' poem, “Essay on Poetics”

A Christian Atheist, Ascension Day post on the democratisation of heaven—a religious and secular interpretation

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’