The word “humility” has an aura of old-fashioned obsolescence about it, perhaps accounting for the tendency of so many to dismiss the whole notion as irrelevant—so rare a presence in contemporary times it might as well be considered a counter culture value.

Seems like an oxymoron doesn’t it? Subsistence at first glance has connotations of deprivation, hardship and burden clinging to it (province of the poor and unfortunate), but upon closer inspection a shift in perspective reveals …

Genuine self-expression strikes me as a very fundamental, yet under-rated aspect of being alive in the world. It is intimately linked to presence and might be described as an organic becoming—the process of …