We excite our olfactory senses each time we open a spice jar. This cook’s book documents some of the spices and flavourings I found exciting in our kitchen. These photographs of latent ingredients can’t convey the fragrances but your recognition of them may evoke their aromas.
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immaterial WITNESS
I bought artificial memories of a disturbing Thursday in Dublin.
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Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
Modern Savings
Individuals often spend without thinking but it’s not something you’d want a government to do. What you’d want to see is a reasoned explanation of the proposed expenditures and the sources of the budget to fund them. The evidence should be documented with no less detail than a judicial summary of a trial. The same care and detail should documented for the management of public health.
Poetic Ageing
‘I want a poem
I can grow old in.’ ¹
Poet and Professor Eavan Boland died a year ago yesterday.
Earthday 51
Dear Reader,
I thought I’d let you know how I perceive our planet is doing this Earthday. I can only see a few things from where I sit and while there is much to celebrate, there seem to be some incongruities. I thought a couple worth mentioning.
Truth and Consequences
We were living in Texas when James Burke’s The Day The Universe Changed was first broadcast. The Cold War was still a thing and truth was one of the biggest casualties. Some would say that the Cold War was a modern form of the Dark Ages. That’s useful to consider since the Dark Ages in western, Christian cultures were not quite so dark elsewhere else on the planet.