Category Archives: miscellany

Radio silence / moving house 0

There is something about the act of packing I find peaceful. Perhaps it’s because I’m accustomed to travelling, and packing is a little ritual that allows you to make peace with the fact that your surroundings will soon change. Or maybe it’s because packing is such a finite, predictable act. On a journey, you know [...]

Prelude without a fugue 0

About a year ago, I was attending a panel at a conference where the panelists were discussing moving towards “green” offices, initiating recycling programs at your work place, strategies to adopt for lowering waste and consumption, and so forth. It wasn’t particularly enlightening — if being green is something you care about, all these [...]