Kerry Wade is a retired lecturer of mathematics and science with an interest in folklore, mythology, science, music and philosophy. A Francophile at heart, he enjoys reading and researching histories of France, visiting Rouen in the northwest of France and villages of the South. Though not subscribing to any particular religious or political stance, he sometimes examines theological and political issues. At home amongst trees and the beauty of the natural world, he sees poetry as a bond between the soul and Nature and meditations that surface upon the ocean of life.
What is it that touches your soul, warms your heart or enlightens your mind? Do you dream and do you wonder? What do you seek and what comes of your thoughts? The Greeks sought, according to Aeschylus, to ‘tame the savageness of man, and make quiet the life of the world.’ The Earth itself is a B...