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When you’re growing up you’re conditioned to believe your hero should be a professional sportsperson or rock star or someone similarly famous who has interesting hair or caustic opinions but I think my hero is probably the person who, while building this wall over a century ago, also thought to attach this little complimentary stone stai…

Bad news: it’s January.

Good news: it will soon be spring and footpaths will once again look like this.

I’m happy to see Mark Zuckerberg announce changes that support freedom of the press at Meta, in particular lifting the restrictions on discussing politics. These are good changes and I give him credit.

I’d love to see this grow into a principle stance that Meta commits to for the long term. He says they are making these changes because th…

“Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.”

—James Hillman

Today I surpassed 200,000 subscribers. I never thought this was possible. My thanks to all of you who have supported me on this journey.

I’ve just found a boxful of 1976. Sindy, and a very early garden design

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