A gentler way

“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous!” King Lear, Act 2 Scene 4 Many of us, it would appear, struggle to comprehend what it means to have little, let alone suffer such a fate. At the end of November 2016, an interesting letter appeared in the Guardian newspaper. …

“We meet people who have crossed deserts, floated on icecaps and cut their way through jungles – and yet in whose souls we would search in vain for evidence of what they have witnessed.”  Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel Why do we travel?  Could we be as happy and fulfilled if we were…