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What Mary Oliver’s black bear can tell us about the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

More speed? More strength? More consumption? More Things?—Revisiting a meditation on love in the time of Coronavirus

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure”—letting ‘fellow suffering’ go and encouraging ‘fellow rejoicing’

More speed? More strength? More consumption? More Things?—A meditation on Love in the time of Coronavirus

Facts not fear. Clean hands. Open hearts.—An Epicurean/Lucretian meditation on how to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic

Learning from Lucretius in the shadow of coronavirus

In this cockeyed world there are shapes and designs, if only we have some curiosity, training, and compassion and take care not to lie or to be sentimental—Some reflections following the discovery of the 39 men and women found dead inside a refrigerated lorry on an industrial estate in Essex