Your letter addresses many valid points about friendship which I have been considering, even puzzling over, for a number of years and to which, I am sad to say, there appears to be no answer, no solution, no remedy. What we consider to be friendship today is something removed from social interactions, removed from all…

I will admit a certain degree of surprise, not so much that you wrote to me, since I am always actively seeking people who are willing to enter into this wonderful Art and commit themselves to a friendship on paper, but more because your missive arrived in the form of a birthday card, and I…

It often comes as a great surprise to realise just how important something minor is in our lives, be it a toe, a finger or, as in your case, an arm. To suddenly have it damaged, or taken completely out of service, at short notice throws us a great deal, as we try to adapt…

For many, when they believe themselves to be a death’s door, a consideration of what comes, and what has been, is their priority no matter how they have lived their lives, no matter what they might believe in. I’m not sure whether this is the normal state of affairs, whether it effects everyone across the…

Things are rarely what they seem to be on the surface: we project our own thoughts and desires onto what we see, what we hear, and try to fit the few facts or pieces of information we’ve received into our own scheme of things, rather than looking further, rather than trying to see things from…