BY JOE NUTT I have just walked half a mile along a quiet pavement in my local market town. The gusts of wind were strong enough to mean I actually had to make a small physical effort to resist each one as it hit, while sporadic, unpredictable rain drops struck my face hard enough to sting. It was trying hard, but failing to rain. I … Continue reading Earthlings
BY JOE NUTT I wish I could have a good laugh. I really, really miss it. It feels like years since I enjoyed the kind of unbridled, spontaneous hilarity that was a familiar part of my experience growing up in what we have all recently come to appreciate is indeed a sceptred isle. I certainly used to feel I belonged to a happy breed. But … Continue reading Dying Without Laughter
BY JOE NUTT Like many people who read an essay by Honor Jones published a few weeks ago in The Atlantic magazine, entitled How I Demolished my Life, I reacted badly. For anyone who missed it, the essay began with the author detailing her dissatisfaction with her current kitchen, before rapidly moving onto a description of the unending mess created by her three children, then … Continue reading A Family is for Life
BY JOE NUTT One of the most significant advances in Western culture took place when a handful of Renaissance artists defined the rules for creating the illusion of linear perspective in their work. When painters learned how to mimic reality by following rules, they unknowingly initiated cultural and intellectual innovation on a vast scale. Perspective gave people vision. Our modern day visionaries have lost this … Continue reading Maintaining Our Sense of Perspective
