One often sees luxury housing developments advertised as ‘exclusive’. The positive implication of this has always puzzled me. Exclusive means someone is excluded: it inspires me to ask who is excluded. And yet when I ask, those around me don’t seem to hear my question as a pointed criticism, as …
I have just spent most of a day thinking about a friend who recently died. I had the opportunity to join her family and friends at her funeral. I knew – and was content to hear from those who knew my friend longer and deeper – that she was not …
Someone has died, someone I know who was around my age. I didn’t know her for long, but I feel I had a bond with her. Her way of being made it easy to be close with her. I have been thinking about what will change in the world with …