Should we harness our emotions? Prof. of Classics @edithmayhall tells us what Aristotle thought... #Philosophy #Aristotle #Classics #AncientGreece #Emotions #Feelings #Aristotle #PositiveEmotions joinexpeditions.com/exps/626

“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.” - Oscar Wilde

Thank you Carmen Escrig and Damian Sweeney for speaking to me:

How people engage with those less powerful than themselves is perhaps the most important test of character.

Couldn’t resist doing this just now before my husband used the bathroom. Happy Thursday!

The #WhispersOfRock manuscript has been submitted! Huge thanks to the editorial team & all my supporters, esp on X 🙏🏾 And ofc my very patient kids & husband. Love you all 🥰 Coming out on 4th September 2025 in the UK & USA.

Does anyone else’s tooth hurt from watching this?

Agatha Christie at her desk in 1950.

My neighbour walked into my house with a watering can. I was in my study & the door was open. She shouted “don’t mind me!” & gaily watered plants in the kitchen & my study while I typed away. Then took my dying orchids away to the orchid hospital (her house) for recovery. ❤️

#Autumn

“It is magical how words arranged in a particular order, immortalised in a letter, can make their way through your fingertips and travel through your veins until all you can feel is heart” #WorldLetterWritingDay theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

1/2 Does your reading taste change according to season? 🍁

“Go ahead then, let’s make ourselves more disposable by not documenting the things that matter, by silencing our hearts and hiding the etchings of our souls, let the wind blow them away, never to be caught, because who cares enough to sit and write?” Time to bring it back 💌📮✨

Really enjoying this. I feel like writing a novel now. Thanks ⁦Matt Haig⁩

Socrates in my study

Infinite art 📹by Jessie Martin

Athens