Artemisia

A thumbnail sketch of the noble game of Chess from Gupta to a Deeper Blue.

Wedding rings, dreams, kokopillau, lightning trees, wanderers and a cotton thread running from ancient Egypt to Early Texas.

An essay inspired by Pythagoras and the number three.

History, by necessity, contains many of the devices of fiction; just as fiction cannot help but to include large doses of actual history.

A brush with my fey inner-Celt while looking over a four leaf clover.

The benefits of gentlemanly debate, literary honesty, intellectual courage and the bobcat logic of a California mink farmer.

A look at a real Louisiana Man and what he accomplished with common sense, decency and personal fortitude.

Pondering 100 million year old fish, the “Great Inbetweenium”, Chinese graveyards, the Rivers Fraser and Meander and the tedium of luxury.

On 'twirling sunwise' and a magical Nepalese widdershins bear. A hop farm worker looks at etymology.

Examining the parallax of progress through the generationally distorted lens of history.

The question of why multitudes submit to doomed systems designed to benefit few, has yet to be conclusively answered.

Examining Thomas Hobbes’ epic book Leviathan through the electric mist with some honoured guests.

On the relationship between our hearts, guts and brains.

After reading these books, you will no longer be a history virgin but I can tell you that you will respect yourself in the morning.

A look at the medium of radio in its past, personal, present, peculiar, pernicious and predicted roles.

Changing mental pathways in the 21st century.

Curiosity and patience through the mystery. Reflections on Guided Meditations or Bobcat Logic for Meditation Hesitancy (6)

A look at three books written by Douglas Reed and the Siamese twins, Religion and History.