The Polymath turns one year old. After the Pause I’m back writing to that beloved vessel.
One Year of The Polymath – Returning to the Vessel and the New Moon in Virgo is a look back at its first year, the ideas it holds, what stays, what disappears, and what comes next. The post can be read on The Polymath site.
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
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
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.
Full Moon in Sagittarius, May 31: The Difference Between Knowing and Participating the new post on The Polymath site speaks of on creativity, culture, astrology, symbolism, and exploring the space where knowledge becomes participation. It can be read here.
Field Notes – Porto, The Mountains, and Human Crossings my new post on The Polymath site https://www.thepolymathisme.com/ is a lived note on Porto, exhibitions, transport hubs, mountains, symbolic conversations, creativity, and the unexpected human crossings that open new possibilities, and of how, often, the path appears afterwards. It can be read here.
Movement, Bare Feet & The Star my new post on The Polymath is a reflection on weather, memory, embodiment, and the many forms of intelligence that shape human life beyond abstraction. From relational awareness and inner weather to creative rebuilding, Tarot, and the slow return of coherence. It can be read on The Polymath site.
How to Keep Creating While Your House Is Under Repair the new post at The Polymath is about Creating through household repairs: how to stay connected to your work when your home is in repairs and life feels unsettled. You can read it here.
The Listening Field: Creativity as Navigation is the new post on The Polymath.
A luminous, subtle guide to creativity as navigation. Learn how artists, polymaths, and creators can open, listen, and translate inspiration without forcing output. Presence, resonance, and subtle alignment guide the process. You can read it here.
The Listening Field: Creativity as Navigation pairs with The Listening Field: How Men Heal When They Are Truly Heard at The Listening Room HQ.
Hildegard von Bingen has been a source of wonder for me – and for countless others – across the centuries. Her life and work span theology, music, natural science, and creative practice, and her integrated approach to knowledge still resonates deeply today. For example on Hildegard von Blingin’ s cover of Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club.
On my second post on The Polymath I explore how her visionary thinking continues to inspire ways of living and working as a polymath, and how her example invites us to connect the threads of our own diverse interests. Read more about Hildegard von Bingen as a Source of Continuous Inspiration here:
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