Autist, eco-poetic philosopher, ecological thinker. Stories, essays, poems, talks, and a commonplace library.https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/en-gbhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/keystones-in-the-patterns-of-place-holos-centenary-2026/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/keystones-in-the-patterns-of-place-holos-centenary-2026/A preview of my forthcoming book Keystones in the Patterns of Place, given at the Holos Earth Academy Centenary Festival of Holism and Evolution: how the West lost its faculty of orientation, and the Compass Rose of Consciousness as a way to find it again, by way of C.S. Lewis, William Blake and Iain McGilchrist.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/the-role-of-spirituality-in-the-evolution-of-consciousness-part-2/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/the-role-of-spirituality-in-the-evolution-of-consciousness-part-2/Part two of a two-part Holos Earth Project talk: time, meaning, consciousness and human agency, drawing Weber, Goethe, Yunkaporta, Corbin, Kingsley, McGilchrist and Nietzsche into the Compass Rose of Consciousness.Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/the-role-of-spirituality-in-the-evolution-of-consciousness-part-1/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/the-role-of-spirituality-in-the-evolution-of-consciousness-part-1/Part one of a two-part Holos Earth Project talk: spiritual intelligence and the evolution of consciousness read through Ken Wilber's AQAL model, and the question of what matures beyond the top of Spiral Dynamics.Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/could-our-future-depend-on-relearning-what-it-means-to-be-indigenous/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/could-our-future-depend-on-relearning-what-it-means-to-be-indigenous/A talk for the Positive Nature Network, May 2023: could our future depend on relearning what it means to be indigenous — to belong to a place rather than to own it?Tue, 16 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/surrendering-to-the-mystery/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/surrendering-to-the-mystery/A conversation with Ben Johnson on self-discovery and expression: letting go of the 'doer', being present and authentic even when it is uncomfortable, and surrendering to the mystery of a creative life.Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/in-conversation-with-daniel-christian-wahl-part-1/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/in-conversation-with-daniel-christian-wahl-part-1/The first of three conversations with Daniel Christian Wahl for the Holos Earth Project: the moment of knowing, a shared German inheritance, holism, and health as a living process.Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/in-conversation-with-daniel-christian-wahl-extra-plato-and-the-left-hemisphere/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/in-conversation-with-daniel-christian-wahl-extra-plato-and-the-left-hemisphere/An extra conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl: tracing our disconnection back to Plato, the shift from nouns to verbs, and a careful defence of McGilchrist's hemisphere theory as asymmetry, not dualism.Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/in-conversation-with-daniel-christian-wahl-part-2/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/in-conversation-with-daniel-christian-wahl-part-2/The second of three conversations with Daniel Christian Wahl: the meta-crisis as a crisis of thinking, bioregional specificity, regenerative agriculture, and the honest question of hope or despair.Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/even-such-a-small-creature-as-i-finds-intimate-shelter-in-their-embrace/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/even-such-a-small-creature-as-i-finds-intimate-shelter-in-their-embrace/Heaven is my Father and Earth is my Mother, and even such a small creature as I finds intimate shelter in their embrace. Therefore, that which fills the universe I regard as my own body, and that which directs the universe I consider as my own nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, […]Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-pattern-of-life-is-not-woven-ahead-of-time-like-cloth-to-be-worn-later-as-a-tunic-rather-life-is-woven-at-the-very-instant-you-live-it/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-pattern-of-life-is-not-woven-ahead-of-time-like-cloth-to-be-worn-later-as-a-tunic-rather-life-is-woven-at-the-very-instant-you-live-it/“The pattern of life is not woven ahead of time, like cloth to be worn later as a tunic. Rather, life is woven at the very instant you live it.” – Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd In the foreword to his historical novel, The Way of Wyrd, psychologist and shamanic consciousness researcher Brian Bates […]Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/there-is-available-to-us-a-form-of-transformation/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/there-is-available-to-us-a-form-of-transformation/“There is available to us, a form of transformation which, each time it is applied, extends and enhances the wholeness of the land, and the act of using this process of transforming puts us in touch with ourselves. This means that it makes the land of the Earth become more and more deeply connected to […]Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/inner-outer-landscapes-in-farm-design-international-society-for-circular-economy-conference-october-2022/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/inner-outer-landscapes-in-farm-design-international-society-for-circular-economy-conference-october-2022/Recording and transcript of my contribution to the International Society for Circular Economy Conference at Exeter University's Penryn Campus, October 2022: inner and outer landscapes in farm design.Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/humans-as-a-beneficial-keystone-species-on-earth-holos-lecture-september-2022/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/humans-as-a-beneficial-keystone-species-on-earth-holos-lecture-september-2022/A Holos Earth Project talk, September 2022: can human beings become a beneficial keystone species — agents at the edge of becoming in the unfolding of greater wholeness, life and beauty?Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/on-wholeness-inwardness-the-universe-is-not-a-thoughtlessly-static-and-inert-whole-the-cosmos-is-not-lazy-but-energetically-dynamic-and-even-creative/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/on-wholeness-inwardness-the-universe-is-not-a-thoughtlessly-static-and-inert-whole-the-cosmos-is-not-lazy-but-energetically-dynamic-and-even-creative/Wholeness & Inwardness Wholeness and inwardness are two key notions put forward by Jan Smuts in his book Holism and Evolution, published in 1926. Smuts’ ideas around Holism sit somewhere between science and philosophy but go deeper yet. They were described by Albert Einstein as two of the most important concepts to shape the future […]Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-qualities-of-the-world-that-come-to-your-attention-are-determined-by-the-qualities-of-the-attention-you-bring-to-it/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-qualities-of-the-world-that-come-to-your-attention-are-determined-by-the-qualities-of-the-attention-you-bring-to-it/“The qualities of the world that come to your attention are determined by the qualities of the attention you bring to it.” – Iain Mc Gilchrist Source: McGilchrist, Iain (2019) The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press. Photo Credits: Rebel Wisdom, CC BY 3.0, […]Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/regenerative-entrepreneurship-human-cultures-conversation-with-ben-johnson-of-the-peripheral-thinking-podcast/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/regenerative-entrepreneurship-human-cultures-conversation-with-ben-johnson-of-the-peripheral-thinking-podcast/A wide-ranging conversation with Ben Johnson for the Peripheral Thinking podcast on regenerative entrepreneurship, human cultures, and the life of their own that creative pursuits take on.Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/moulting/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/moulting/On parting as its own kind of death, and how keenly the loss is felt at first.Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/alchemy-of-wholeness-may-2021/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/alchemy-of-wholeness-may-2021/A lecture for the Holos Earth Project on the alchemy of wholeness: the inner work of individuation and its bearing on how we tend the living world.Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/regenerative-farming-isnt-enough-we-need-regenerative-enterprise-podcast-interview-march-2021/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/talks/regenerative-farming-isnt-enough-we-need-regenerative-enterprise-podcast-interview-march-2021/An interview with Koen van Seijn of Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food on regenerative enterprise: enough is enough, radical generosity, and nature as your co-worker.Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMTtalkshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-6-pathways-through-the-mandelbrot-set/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-6-pathways-through-the-mandelbrot-set/Part VI of The Way of the Fool (forthcoming): the Mandelbrot set and fractal geometry as a map of the Fool's recursive journey through self and world.Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTessayshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-5-the-quality-of-the-fool/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-5-the-quality-of-the-fool/Part V of The Way of the Fool: the Fool not as a philosophy but as a quality of consciousness — a way of meeting life rather than a doctrine to hold.Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTessayshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-4-a-medley-of-fools-heralds-the-journey-within-the-journey/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-4-a-medley-of-fools-heralds-the-journey-within-the-journey/Part IV of The Way of the Fool: the many faces of the Fool — holy fool, jester, innocent — and the journey within the journey they herald.Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMTessayshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-3-wholeness-is-the-fools-business/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-3-wholeness-is-the-fools-business/Part III of The Way of the Fool: why wholeness, not cleverness, is the Fool's true work — and the inner guides who teach what no human master can.Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTessayshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/call-the-world-if-you-please-the-vale-of-soul-making/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/call-the-world-if-you-please-the-vale-of-soul-making/Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making’ by John Keats (1891), Letter to his brother Call the world if you Please ‘The Vale of Soul-making.’ Then you will find out the use of the world… I say ‘Soul making’ Soul as distinguished from an Intelligence – There may be intelligences or sparks […]Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/it-is-a-path-within-ourselves-where-the-feet-first-falter-in-shadow-and-darkness-but-which-is-later-made-gay-by-heavenly-light/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/it-is-a-path-within-ourselves-where-the-feet-first-falter-in-shadow-and-darkness-but-which-is-later-made-gay-by-heavenly-light/It is a path within ourselves where the feet first falter in shadow and darkness but which is later made gay by heavenly light George William Russell, or AE as he preferred to be called, Meditation in Candle of Vision (1918): THERE is no personal virtue in me other than this that I followed a […]Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-2-a-wondrous-fellow-appears-out-of-the-darkness/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-2-a-wondrous-fellow-appears-out-of-the-darkness/Part II of The Way of the Fool: the Fool appears as a guide out of the darkness, and what it means to recognise oneself among those who belong to him.Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00:00 GMTessayshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/after-the-storm/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/after-the-storm/After the Storm by Boris Pasternak The air is full of after-thunder freshness, And everything rejoices and revives. With the whole outburst of its purple clusters. The lilac drinks the air of paradise. The gutters overflow; the change of weather Makes all you see appear alive and new. Meanwhile the shades of sky are growing […]Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/what-was-told-that/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/what-was-told-that/What Was Told, That by Jalal al-Din Rumi 1207-1273 What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest. What was told the cypress that made it strong and straight, what was whispered the jasmine so it is what it is, whatever made sugarcane sweet, whatever was […]Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-1-about-the-boy/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/essays/the-way-of-the-fool-part-1-about-the-boy/Part I of The Way of the Fool: how the Boy — an inner companion first met at nineteen — became the figure through whom a lifetime of writing finds its voice.Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTessayshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/descending-into-myself/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/descending-into-myself/A meditation for the Fool, worked at across two decades, from 2001 to 2020.Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-father-and-the-mother-build-a-cage-for-the-boy/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-father-and-the-mother-build-a-cage-for-the-boy/The Boy's parents — erratic Mothers, clockwork Fathers — build a cage around him: a story of the labels and expectations that quietly enclose a child.Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTstorieshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/this-one-will-live-yet/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/this-one-will-live-yet/Written alongside The Boy Jumps Ship, narrowed to the Stinger and the Stirring.Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-boy-jumps-ship/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-boy-jumps-ship/The Boy has been at sea all his life without knowing it. The day he wakes on the deck and sees the ship for the first time, he jumps.Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTstorieshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-rose-celebrates-by-falling-apart/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-rose-celebrates-by-falling-apart/Rumi says just being in a body and sentient is rapture. Just being here is a cause for celebration. And a cause for grief too. Though grief is also a form of joy. The rose celebrates by falling apart. Foil by foil falling to the ground. And the cloud celebrates by weeping.Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-soul-phone-rings-and-rings-with-news-of-death/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-soul-phone-rings-and-rings-with-news-of-death/The Boy paces a hallway that will not let him arrive, between the bedrooms of his family, as the soul's phone rings and rings with news of death.Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTstorieshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/suffering-is-unnecessary-but-one-has-to-suffer-before-he-is-able-to-realise-that-this-is-so/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/suffering-is-unnecessary-but-one-has-to-suffer-before-he-is-able-to-realise-that-this-is-so/“Once I thought that I had been wounded as no man ever had. Because I felt thus I vowed to write this book. But long before I began the book the wound had healed. Since I had sworn to fulfil my task I reopened the horrible wound. Let me put it another way . . […]Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/what-is-wrong-with-peace-that-its-inspiration-does-not-endure-and-that-it-is-almost-untellable/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/what-is-wrong-with-peace-that-its-inspiration-does-not-endure-and-that-it-is-almost-untellable/“The world seems to be sinking into dusk but I recount, as in the beginning, in my sing-song voice which sustains me saved by my tale from present confusion and troubles and protected for the future. Finished with the sweeping over the centuries with going and back forth, as in the past. Now I can […]Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/walking-makes-the-path-and-on-glancing-back-one-sees-the-path-that-will-never-be-trod-again/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/walking-makes-the-path-and-on-glancing-back-one-sees-the-path-that-will-never-be-trod-again/Wanderer, your footprints are the path, and nothing else; wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking. Walking makes the path, and on glancing back one sees the path that will never be trod again. Wanderer, there is no path— Just your wake in the sea. taken from: “Proverbios y cantares XXIX” […]Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/one-breath-around-the-world/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/one-breath-around-the-world/Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-right-time-for-coffee-but-not-for-the-boy/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-right-time-for-coffee-but-not-for-the-boy/'I don't have to make you packed lunches to love you,' says the Mother. A story of a boy who learns to fend for himself, and of love measured out.Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTstorieshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/ones-real-life-is-so-often-the-life-that-one-does-not-lead/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/ones-real-life-is-so-often-the-life-that-one-does-not-lead/In some such way as this we could gather up these strewn and scattered petals of song into one perfect rose of life, and yet, perhaps, in so doing, we might be missing the true quality of the poems; one’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead; and beautiful poems, […]Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-life-of-every-man-is-a-way-to-himself-an-attempt-at-a-way-the-suggestion-of-a-path/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-life-of-every-man-is-a-way-to-himself-an-attempt-at-a-way-the-suggestion-of-a-path/But every man is not only himself; he is also the unique, particular, always significant and remarkable point where the phenomena of the world intersect once and for all and never again. That is why every man’s story is important, eternal, sacred; and why every man while he lives and fulfils the will of nature […]Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/but-mans-task-is-the-exact-opposite-to-become-conscious-of-the-contents-that-press-upward-from-the-unconscious/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/but-mans-task-is-the-exact-opposite-to-become-conscious-of-the-contents-that-press-upward-from-the-unconscious/It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 391 People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, […]Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-craft-or-art-of-writing-is-the-clumsy-attempt-to-find-symbols-for-the-wordlessness/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-craft-or-art-of-writing-is-the-clumsy-attempt-to-find-symbols-for-the-wordlessness/I am choosing to write this book to my sons. They are little boys now and they will never know what they came from through me, unless I tell them. It is not written for them to read now but when they are grown and the pains and joys have tousled them a little. And […]Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/you-meet-your-destiny-on-the-road-you-take-to-avoid-it/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/you-meet-your-destiny-on-the-road-you-take-to-avoid-it/You meet your destiny on the road you take to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine, Book VIII, Fable 16Thu, 26 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/a-narcissists-prayer/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/a-narcissists-prayer/That didn’t happen.And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.And if it was, that’s not a big deal.And if it is, that’s not my fault.And if it was, I didn’t mean it.And if I did… You deserved it. anonymous, found at https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/comments/4nymz1/a_narcissists_prayer/, accessed 23.03.2020Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/of-grey-eyes-staring-black-holes-into-the-wall/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/of-grey-eyes-staring-black-holes-into-the-wall/A scene from the Boy's childhood: the warmth of bedtime and being read to, and the grey eyes that stare black holes into the wall, slipping out of the shared world into an inner one.Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTstorieshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/porridge-justice/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/porridge-justice/A breakfast-table scene from the Boy's early childhood: a pot of piping-hot porridge, three small children, and a first reckoning with justice.Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTstorieshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/the-little-man-dancing-in-my-heart/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/the-little-man-dancing-in-my-heart/Perhaps we do not find God so much as make God, a little more with every day we live.Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-fool-is-not-a-philosophy-but-a-quality-of-consciousness-of-life/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-fool-is-not-a-philosophy-but-a-quality-of-consciousness-of-life/But there always exist in society some men and women whom the Fool touches, who respond to the Fool. For the Fool awakens the Fool in others, but in many the Fool is stifled, or sleeps. There are human beings living in isolation and loneliness in the society of men who realise suddenly that they […]Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-boy-slips-out-of-himself/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-boy-slips-out-of-himself/The Boy walks away from his family, closes his bedroom door and listens at the keyhole: a story of the secret, forbidden half-dark where he slips out of himself.Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMTstorieshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-abolition-of-man-c-s-lewis-on-the-threat-of-moral-relativism/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-abolition-of-man-c-s-lewis-on-the-threat-of-moral-relativism/“A hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.” The Abolition of Man was first given as a series of lectures in 1943. The lectures dealt largely with the dangers of moral relativism – a subject that increasingly was to occupy Lewis’ mind as he noted the destructive trends emerging in the modern […]Sat, 18 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/55-2/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/55-2/“You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and […]Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/jonathan-livingston-seagul/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/jonathan-livingston-seagul/Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall. To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonour. But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve – slowing, slowing, and stalling once more – was no ordinary bird. […] “…one day, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, you shall […]Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/what-are-people-for/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/what-are-people-for/“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” ~ Wendell BerryFri, 17 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-word-grants-a-stay-of-execution-joseph-brodsky/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/the-word-grants-a-stay-of-execution-joseph-brodsky/“…to God’s least creature is given voice for speech, or for song – a sign that it has found a way; to bind together, and stretch life’s limits, whether an hour or a day.” by Joseph BrodskyThu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/three-rules-on-work/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/library/three-rules-on-work/1- Out of clutter find simplicity; 2- From discord find harmony; 3- In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. by Albert EinsteinThu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTlibraryhttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/promise-of-a-man/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/promise-of-a-man/The awkward attempt at being human, with so much lizard still under the tailcoat.Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/bits-and-pieces-of-the-soul/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/bits-and-pieces-of-the-soul/A boy sits on the floor before a heap of shards and takes the broken pile for the centre of his life.Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-tale-of-two-tomorrows/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-tale-of-two-tomorrows/A fable of the Little Girl, the Old Man and a sycamore seed turning in a glass jar: every life is like a seed, and this is a tale of two tomorrows.Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMTstorieshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/there-are-things-we-cannot-do-on-our-own/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/there-are-things-we-cannot-do-on-our-own/Written on 13 February 2016.Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/the-death-of-the-human-situation/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/the-death-of-the-human-situation/Loneliness in the concrete maze of the city, where no-one next door is a neighbour.Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/my-gallows-star/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/my-gallows-star/A rope of light let down from a distant star, and the darkness that both lights it and holds us apart.Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/out-of-the-world-into-its-middle/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/out-of-the-world-into-its-middle/Written in May 2004 for my first-born sonSat, 15 May 2004 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/i-am-your-vessel-not-your-captain/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/i-am-your-vessel-not-your-captain/Written for my son on his birthday, on being his vessel and not his captain.Mon, 10 May 2004 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/the-masterpiece-of-art/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/poems/the-masterpiece-of-art/We are each born an artist, and the masterpiece is the shaping of our own soul, worked at from 1998 to 2000.Sat, 02 Sep 2000 00:00:00 GMTpoemshttps://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-lifer/https://marcusdemetriuslink.com/stories/the-lifer/Short Story About the Awakening to an ImprisonmentWed, 19 Aug 1998 00:00:00 GMTstories