On Getting Better

Adam Phillips

To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write th...

Birdsong in a Time of Silence

Steven Lovatt

A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature'At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly- instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always "on manoeuvres", and it's easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker,...