Donkeys and wisdom

Reading Andy Merrifield’s The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World. Merrifield is British, once a warehouse clerk, then a geography p...

Dogs and silence

The monks of New Skete in Cambridge (New York) are well known as dog trainers, having published books and created video and television versions of their methods...

Four more virtues

We hover at the primitive evolutionary level of controlled drives, on the brink of social and moral vice: violence in our drive for survival, hatred in our inst...