Chess aka The Royal Game (Schachnovelle), by Stefan Zweig (1942)

Towards the end of A Clockwork Orange there is the memorable scene in which Alex is subjected to Aversion Therapy. He is injected with nausea-inducing drugs, his eyes are pinned open and he is forced to watch images of sex and violence, all the while listening to Beethoven. Without dwelling on The Current Situation too …

Unfinished business

In my line of work abrupt endings (aka unfinished business) are undesirable. They occur for a number of reasons not least caused by people who don’t always understand the impact of them on both student and tutor. For those unfamiliar with this term or idea an abrupt ending is when contact with a person comes …

Feng shui and conflict

Photo by alleksana on Pexels.com I feng shuied my house last week and it's rather left me bereft. I seem to have run out of momentum for anything else. Perhaps I should clarify. The conflict I had in my life i.e. the mess that seemed to abound out of all control in the kitchen, the …