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Continue reading →: Where Wind ListsParis, 1844. A detained writer awaits examination in the Tuileries. Confined for seditious pamphlets, he watches autumn winds rattle casements and discovers that whilst the State imprisons his body, imagination remains sovereign. A philosophical meditation on liberty, dreams and truth.
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Continue reading →: Paper Boats, Grown WaterAt day’s edge, Catherine smudges paint, texts a conservator about paper boats, invites a priest to breakfast, and accepts a hopscotch dare – breaking one quiet rule to discover adult steadiness can float alongside mischief on New Corinth’s grown water softly tonight.
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Continue reading →: Jean Purdy: The Woman Who Saw Life BeginJean Purdy was first to witness the embryo that became Louise Brown – yet her name was deliberately removed from commemorative plaques for thirty years. She discusses inventing clinical embryology, Edwards’ failed protests for her recognition, and dying at 39 before vindication arrived.
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Continue reading →: Questions I Cannot AnswerLower Manhattan, October 1886. After the Statue of Liberty’s dedication, a telegraph operator struggles to answer her daughter’s questions about the wire. She contemplates what it means to preserve a childlike heart whilst carrying the knowledge she cannot fully grasp.
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Continue reading →: Wanting What’s PossibleCatherine tests three wishes against harbour dusk, trades omnipotence for practice, risks ordinary intimacy over professional armour, and shows up – brushes in hand – at Tuesday watercolour: no genies, just attendance, courage, and a quietly altered heart in New Corinth by the harbour.
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Continue reading →: Charlotte Moore Sitterly: Building the Reference Library That Made Modern Astronomy PossibleCharlotte Moore Sitterly spent seventy years measuring starlight with such precision that her tables remain essential today – yet Princeton refused her admission. Discover how a “human computer” built astronomy’s invisible infrastructure whilst institutional barriers tried to erase her contributions entirely.
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Continue reading →: The Wheel TurnsA seasoned Moravian merchant stands at a crossroads on Czechoslovakia’s tenth anniversary, watching the jubilee crowds and the Exhibition’s final hours. As trams clatter and lorries rumble past, he contemplates three wishes – and what truly matters in a turning world.
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Continue reading →: My Brother the EngineerCatherine spotlights her steadfast brother, a retired engineer testing life without blueprints. A dusk phone call opens questions about competence, purpose, and learning to be ordinary. Harbour light, pottery jokes, and quiet courage frame two siblings practising presence over performance – together, at last.
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Continue reading →: Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer: She Wrote the Algorithm Before Computers Existed to Run ItSister Mary Celine Fasenmyer shares how a quiet nun in mid-century Pennsylvania conceived the algorithm behind today’s computer algebra, decades before computers arrived – her method’s erasure, rediscovery, and the abiding value of insight born from patience and care.
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Continue reading →: The Same Tuesday AgainLondon, 1970. A defiant young office clerk wrestles with the grinding monotony of her days and the weight of her mother’s expectations. As dockers strike and decimalisation looms, she questions whether escape from life’s endless circles is ever truly possible.
Feign the virtue thou dost seek, till it becometh thine own
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