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Without force or haste explores what it means to live attentively — in Simone Weil’s sense of an openness to what is present.
Some of the work here takes the form of wayfaring snippets and essays, texts and images in dialogue.
The term wayfaring borrows from anthropologist Tim Ingold’s distinction between wayfaring and navigation — getting to know as-you-go rather than knowing-in-advance.
I also have a page on health, where I explore those aspects that help us to maintain some dignity as we enter into old age.
Following Isabelle Stengers’ caution against ‘rushed certainty’, I hope these notes unfold in response to what appears; that they do not stamp an authority over that which has been momentarily realised.
I often wonder why I have the urge to go public with my thoughts and feelings. The urge seems to run counter to my felt need of treading softly and being of no definite colour, merging with a monochromic background where I can simply fade away.
Tony Cearns
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