On Language
25.06 The Courage to Write
submitting our writing to the critical gaze of a heartless public takes fearlessness beyond courage. It takes drink.
2025-03-31
Travels with Myself
A Journal of Discovery and Transition
Doug Jordan, Author
Life and Death
24.20 Elegy for an Extraordinary Woman
I don’t know if Francine would describe herself as a virtuous person, or someone consciously seeking to live a more virtuous life. I doubt she had a ‘top six’ list of virtues she aspired to, but I do believe she was naturally virtuous in two or three domains. And these are the things that, for me at least, make her an exceptional person: generosity, tolerance, sense of humour.
2024-10-30
Travels With Myself, Vol. 3 (2022)
22-1. Year-End Review 2021
But enough of 2021, what do we intend to do about 2022. Well, assuming continuing decent health, both physical and mental, and hoping that life’s vicissitudes give me a pass this year, I think I’ll try for the same mission as 2021 but modified thusly:
2022-01-14
Books by Doug Jordan
21-1. Purpose & Mission for 2021
I won’t burden you with all of the Objectives I have set for myself in 2021. You won’t be that interested and I know historically my plans have been too ambitious and subject to perturbation from unexpected events. But here are a few:
2021-01-15
Travels with Myself, Vol. 2 (2021)
20-3. Patience
Said to be a virtue (though, curiously, not one of the ‘Great Virtues’ (André Compte-Sponville)), Patience can be learned, or so we are also told, and there is no doubt in my many years, and even more so in the last many months, I have had plenty of opportunities for honing this virtue.
2020-07-15
