About

This is a non-fiction blog built around three broad themes.

Reflections

These are my hearth-and-heart musings on life and living: home, place, and belonging. Expect the occasional stream-of-consciousness ramble and, from time to time, some doggerel verse.

It may be good. It may be awful.

It will always be honest.

Logos Weave

This is where I climb into my mental spaceship and explore metaphysics: being, reality, consciousness, archetypes, and whatever we might mean by “the divine”.

My perspective is unapologetically informed by the perennial wisdom tradition, while remaining open-minded and exploratory. Some of the questions examined here are either profoundly important or fundamentally unanswerable.

Possibly both.

Civic Forum

This is where I explore political philosophy and civic responsibility.

The general mood is civic republican and post-liberal, although you may be relieved to learn that I have no intention of providing commentary on current events, individual politicians, or political parties.

I’m interested less in today’s headlines than in the deeper questions of how societies ought to be organised, what citizenship means, and what we owe one another as members of a political community.

Why This Blog?

The blog began life as a rather personal homage to my corner of South East Wales.

The original idea was not to create a tourist guide but a kind of psychogeography centred on an imagined place called Siluria, named after the ancient Celtic tribe, the Silures, who once inhabited much of South Wales. Siluria happens to share the same landscapes, wildlife, layered history, and mythology as the region I call home.

Yes, it’s rather niche.

Over time, however, the blog evolved. More recent posts have become a way of publicly scratching a number of long-standing intellectual itches. This has involved venturing into subjects often considered unsuitable for polite company, namely politics and religion, while trying to begin from first principles and follow the argument wherever it leads.

I am not an academic.

My method is simpler: follow interesting questions, read widely, and think aloud.

How I Use AI

I use AI extensively as a research assistant, editor, sounding board, and occasional sparring partner.

The opinions are mine. The mistakes are mine too.

Everything you read here should be approached with a healthy degree of critical scepticism and with your own mental faculties fully engaged.

It is also important to understand that I do not possess the answers. Most of the views expressed on this blog are not final, settled conclusions. I try to hold my beliefs lightly and my doubts lightly too.

Even when I think I have reached a conclusion, another question usually follows:

So what?

Or, as my wife would put it:

“What’s all this got to do with the price of eggs?”

By which she means: how does any of this theory connect with ordinary life?

I am still working that out.