Life rarely offers neat conclusions. If it did, the path to what matters most would be much simpler than it is.

Each piece begins with an image and moves towards an idea. They are starting points for questioning what we assume, and a method to help us think.

Reflections looks at ordinary moments: the things we pass without seeing, the assumptions we never examine.

Literati looks at a group of thinkers who met in eighteenth-century Edinburgh and changed how the world thought. At the time, none of them knew what they were starting.

That is the point of both. The capacity to think carefully, and to shape what follows from it, belongs to all of us.

REFLECTIONS

LITERATI