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.
Other walks through old rural lanes and modern pavements. Shades of green. Picking wild blackberries. An impromptu conversation. Being under a wonderful weeping willow. Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane can be read on The Polymath site: https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/08/field-notes-architecture-of-lane-ii.html
Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane my new post on The Polymath talks of a late afternoon walk I took through old lanes and modern pavements reveals layers of architecture, class and memory. Abandoned houses, workers’ housing, porcelain swallows, hidden exhibitions and a clearing carpeted with fallen apples beneath a waxing Moon. Field Notes – The Architecture of the Lane can be read here.
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
Field Notes – Solstice Roads my new post on The Polymath site is Field Notes from a Solstice journey between Porto and Lisboa. A day of buses, trains, sea water, unexpected encounters, a lost scarf, and the quiet arrival of summer. It can be read here.
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.
Penelope and the Ducks – Underwater Woman: Swimming In The Sea
Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic is my new post at The Polymath site.
After more than twenty years away from ocean swimming, I returned to swim in the Atlantic. Returning to Swimming in the Atlantic is a very personal thing, and post, to mr. Sea swimming, bodily memory, presence, the North Atlantic coast of Porto, Foz, rediscovering a relationship that had never truly disappeared. You can read it here.
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.
Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I, 1903-1907
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.