On authority, beauty, humanity, ingenuity, people-power, picturing, and wonder

Hello! I have been writing here, irregularly, since 2005. I always tagged the posts, but it took me four years to categorise – to bed down the about-ness of this thing.

For as long as I can remember I’ve had a complex relationship with authority, so it’s no surprise that that pops up regularly. I have a passion for empowering people; a deep appreciation of nice design, patterns of nature, and cleverness, both in theory and practice. And I have a kind of faith in humanity and the universe – that everything will all be alright. I am easily moved and often full of wonder. I ask a lot of questions, which is probably where my issues with authority began.

So what I do here is make my experience of those things manifest. Glad you dropped in

Cath

ps The banner image is of a tiger moth in the family Arctiidae. (Thanks to Daniel Marlos for that information.) People who live where I took the photo said it’s native to that small part of Turkey (south of Fethiye) and one Mediterranean island. In the portrait picture I am enjoying some home-made yoghurt at a great B&B in the Dordogne valley, France.

Update – 27 November 2009 – now there’s a whole page about me.