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The Smiths, Seneca, and the Corrosion of the Soul

15th-century illuminated manuscript,  Seneca Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

The Smiths, Seneca, and the Corrosion of the Soul is my new essay is at The Listening Room HQ The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice – site

In Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius) Seneca warned Lucilius that busyness, ambition and external success can quietly erode the inner life.

The Smiths, Seneca, and the Corrosion of the Soul starts from a line in The Smiths’ Frankly, Mr. Shankly: “It pays my way, and it corrodes my soul”.

The post explores Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius, the modern cult of busyness, creativity, masculinity, and the hidden cost of lives lived in perpetual motion.

Through The Smiths, Seneca, Stoicism, Mal Evans, creativity, grief and modern life, this essay explores the hidden cost of endless activity asking if the things that pay our way may also corrode our souls.

What happens when productivity, success and endless projects begin to erode the very instrument through which we experience life: the soul?

Read The Smiths, Seneca, and the Corrosion of the Soul: https://www.thelisteningroomhq.com/2026/07/the-smiths-seneca-and-corrosion-of-soul.html

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New Moon In Cancer, July 2026 – The Womb and the Sanctuary & One Year of The Listening Room HQ at The Polymath

Johfra Bosschart – Cancer, 1974/75

In New Moon In Cancer, July 2026 – The Womb and the Sanctuary & One Year of The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice and The Polymath sister site – my new post on The Polymath the Cancer New Moon of July 2026 meets the first anniversary of The Listening Room HQ, exploring home, family, sanctuary, sovereignty, creativity, and the slow architecture of belonging. You can read it on The Polymath site:
https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/07/new-moon-in-cancer-july-2026-womb-and.html

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One Year of The Listening Room HQ at The Listening Room HQ

Marc Chagall, The Birthday, 1915

One Year of The Listening Room HQ, my men’s practice, that offers sessions for men, and maps and reads for everyone.

One year after its birth, The Listening Room HQ first birthday post is a reflection on men, mental health, healing, accountability, creativity, nature and the many paths back to ourselves. It’s written from my personal experience and perspective. You can read it here: https://www.thelisteningroomhq.com/2026/07/one-year-of-listening-room-hq.html

To everyone who has read, listened, written, reflected, challenged, encouraged and walked alongside this project: thank you.

Mondo Bizarre Magazine Amazing Sounds & Other Delights, Entries, Radio Show, Raquel Pinheiro, YéYé Radio

Amazing Songs & Other Delights repeats Summer 2026

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on repeats until mid September.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights is broadcasted on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app). Each same show repeats 1st and 2nd Monday of the month, then another 3rd and 4th Monday of the month, 3-4pm (London time).

Exceptionally, this year The Anniversary Edition is in Autumn.

All shows on mixcloud shows on mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ |  Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

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The Difference Between Effective Action and Activity at The Listening Room HQ

The Difference Between Effective Action and Activity the new post on The Listening Room H – The Polymath sister site and my men’s practice – is a follow up of  The Difference Between Action and Contact. It talks of when life feels overwhelming, more activity isn’t always the answer. Learn why effective action, discernment and rest often create real change. It can be read on The Listening Room HQ site:
https://www.thelisteningroom.com/2026/07/the-difference-between-effective-action.html

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Capricorn Full Moon, June 30 – The Things That Continue at The Polymath

Jill Bliss – Capricorn Full Moon #2

Capricorn Full Moon, June 30 – The Things That Continue is my new post at The Polymath site. Between the Gemini New Moon and the Capricorn Full Moon, what quietly continued? Reflections on tending what remains alive, creativity, the sea, conversation and the slow work of growing a meaningful life. You can read it at The Polymath site: https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/06/capricorn-full-moon-june-30-things-that.html

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The Difference Between Action and Contact at The Listening Room HQ

Wassily Kandinsky – Contact, 1924

The Difference Between Action and Contact, my new post at The Listening Room HQ – my men’s practice and The Polymath sister site – approaches the difference between action and contact in men’s lives. How constant doing can replace presence with self and others, and how real connection requires staying internally present even within action. You can read it at The Listening Room HQ site.

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #98 – The Of Summer & Football edition by Raquel Pinheiro – Monday 15 & 22 on Yé Yé Radio

New Order

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #98 – The Of Summer & Football edition is broadcasted Monday 15 and 22 June, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).

Summer is around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, the 2026 World Cup is on. The Of Summer & Football edition has nineteen songs and one instrumental that speak of both. The Summer songs aren’t all necessarily season specific.

The Wedding Present’s Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft of from their  album George Best, Manchester United’s (in)famous right winger

Billy Bragg’s God’s Footballer is about
Peter Knowles a forward of
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., better known as Wolves.

John Travolta & Olivia Newton John – Summer Nights classic from the film Greece is a perfect Summer evening dancing song. Along with the surfy Peter Gunn by Duane Eddy.

The Smiths’ Golden Lights is a cover of English singer-songwriter Twinkle’s 1965 single, and in itself as little to do with Summer.

New Order’s World In Motionand Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds’s  Three Lions where written with England’s National team in mind, while
Belle and Sebastian’s It Only Takes One Lion is their 2026 song for Scotland National team.

As usual on the Summer and Winter programme there’s a cover of The Mamas & the Papas do’ California Dreamin’, this time by José Feliciano.

Tracklist:
01 – Tom Joseph – Brighton
02 – New Order – World In Motion
03 – Frank Rabeyrolles – Bossa In My Heart
04 – The Wedding Present – Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
05: Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Under A Cat
06: The Fall – Kicker Conspiracy
07: National Death Industry – The End Of All The Things We Do
08: Belle and Sebastian – It Only Takes One Lion
09: Calvin Harris – Summer
10: Animal Collective – Goalkeeper
11: Saint Etienne – Nothing Can Stop Us Now
12: The Smiths – Golden Lights
12: Waaves – King Of The Beachaaa
14: Rod Stewart – Touchline
15: Duane Eddy – Peter Gunn
16: Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds – Three Lions
17: John Travolta & Olivia Newton John Summer Nights
18: Billy Bragg – God’s Footballer
19: Weezer – Island In The Sun
20: José Feliciano – California Dreamin’

All previous shows on mixcloud:
Yé Yé Radio mixcloud / | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

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Gemini New Moon, June 15 – The Things That Remain at The Polymath

Gustavo Sanches de Castro – Folhas soltas de um diário (Loose pages from a diary) photo © Raquel Pinheiro

Gemini New Moon, June 15 – The Things That Remain, my new post at The Polymath, is not an ordinary astrology post.

It starts with real every day life things, a song – The Irish Goodbye by Bernard Butler – conversations, a exhibition – Sentimento Monocromático (Monocromatic Feeling) by Gustavo Sanches de Castro, a poem – Na Spailpíní Fánacha (The Wandering Spailpín) read by Ian Duhig – a radio show – RTE Arena 100 – to arrive to what, for me, endures.

There’s pigeons, swings, sliders, ice creams, conversations too. You can read the full post here.