The Wood at Midwinter

Weapons used abroad always come home, and weapons of the mind are no different.

In The Middle Passage, James Hollis writes: “Grief, for example, is the occasion for acknowledging the value of that which has been experienced.”

“Mid-way in life’s journey / I found myself in a dark wood, / having lost the way.”

In The Sea and Summer, Melbourne of the mid-twenty-first century is half buried under the rising sea.

In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held directly accountable for it.