There are tangos that beguile you with their elegance and focus. There are tangos that slither up beside you on a bar stool in Buenos Aires, and steal your money and your dignity, dripping in silk and deception. There are tangos that rescue you from loneliness, wrap you in firelight and tenderness. There are tangos… Read More Blood Tango
Wisdom keepers are the guardians of the sacred and the true, often lonely voices in an increasingly loud and shrill world. Chief Oren Lyons, of the Turtle Clan of Onondaga, First Nations Peoples, is one such voice and he sounds a warning that the earth has entered a period of degradation. There are two signs… Read More Earth Songs
Wolves are one of the last great free spirits left in a world hurtling towards standardisation, uniformity and mediocrity. Wolves represent the poet voice, still moved by moonlight and northern winds, still searching for wild, untamed places, still drawn by unexplored, free spaces. They are the guardians of the wild, in ways humans are only… Read More When The Wolves Ran Free
In Rex Stout’s evocative story, the Bashful Body, private consulting detective Nero Wolfe leaves his New York home to visit a renowned orchid grower in upstate New York. For Wolfe, an avid fan of orchids and their cultivation, the trip represents a pilgrimage of sorts. He is a recluse, but for the chance to acquire… Read More Orchids: Nature’s Rebels
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