'Who By Fire', Leonard Cohen with Sonny Rollins

Neil Kinnock, falling endlessly into the sea

The video creator is Greg Stekelman, aka themanwhofellasleep.

Setting the grounds for Caring and Appreciation: Distinction in beauty

When one cares-for another they immediately see beauty, it is not looked for. It is beautiful means 'in my caring for X, I see them as ... '

When an appreciator looks for beauty they find that it cannot be seen. It is their looking that makes beauty invisible, as they are trying to describe it as a separate conceptual quality.

Sorry

Sorry

by R. S. Thomas

Dear Parents,

I forgive you my life,

Begotten in a drab town,

The intention was good;

Passing the street now,

I see still the remains of sunlight.

It was not the bone buckled;

You gave me enough food

To renew myself.

It was the mind's weight

Kept me bent, as I grew tall.

It was not your fault.

What should have gone on,

Arrow aimed from a tried bow

At a tried target, has turned back,

Wounding itself

With questions you had not asked.

From 'The Bread of Truth' (1963)

Tales from academia

That akward moment when you realise that all your funding rejections are not because you're a misunderstood genius, but that you are a very well understood idiot.