Areopagus Volume LII

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the fifty second volume of the Areopagus. Fifty two! Now there's a familiar number... well, it's precisely the number of weeks in a year. Which can only mean I have been writing the Areopagus for that length of time. Well, this is true. In fact, the first volume of the Areopagus was sent in May of last year. It is only because of various special instalments, comprising contributions from you, my Gentle Readers, that the fifty second volume has come around in what is now June of 2023.

This must begin with gratitude. There are many who I might — and in due course shall — thank, but it would be wrong of me not to mention in the first place my generous patrons at Write of Passage. Whatever the value of my work — and there is, I hope, some value — it is something which could not have been shared with so many people, nor freely and so frequently, were it not for their support. For one year now I have been their first Writer-in-Residence; more are sure to follow, as the…