"We are made of ghosts, we grievers, and those spirits are forever beside us, as a protective force, part of the web of consciousness that interconnects all things." A quote from another of Nick Cave's beautiful letters about #grief: www.theredhandfiles.com/seeking-coun...

SBS World Movies are continuing on with their season of Jet Li movies. Bless them. Tonight it’s Once Upon A Time In China, an important movie for me. Here’s a short blog about why. #MartialArtsMovies jianghumeredith.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/b...

SBS World movies is doing a season of Jet Li movies. My favourite performer in my favourite genre. Last night I saw Bodyguard from Beijing and My Father is a Hero. Right now I’m watching The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk. I’m in my happy place. #JetLi #KungFuMovies www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/col...

For anyone out there who needs to tap into their sense of wonder: Photo from Apollo 11 Mission, NASA, 1969

When you experience a world that confounds you, mystifies you, breaks and makes you with all of its heartbreak and beauty, what do you do? dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/the-rupture

Hands with a stick, Vincent Van Gogh #Art

“Some - not all but some - situations elicit grief alongside feelings of inspiration or uplift. Try to ignore your feelings about one, then you risk avoiding or distorting the other.” My piece about #grief as a space of complexity. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/grief-as-a...

Seascape with Buoy, JMW Turner #Art

What do the words ‘grammar’ and ‘glamour’ have to do with each other & why did their etymologies make me think of a statue of a Greek enchantress? For ‘grammar’ and ‘glamour’ are etymologically intertwined, and once had meanings that may surprise you. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/precision-...

Self Portrait with Red Hat, Leonor Fini, 1968 #Art

The empty space demarcated by grief stands ready to receive. When I come to remember my dead, what will I put into that empty space? A short article on #grief and memory: dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/forget-me-...

'After sunset, as seen from the baloon', from Travels in the Air, by Albert Tissandier, Eugene Ciceri, 1871. (Sourced from the Public Domain Image Archive / Internet Archive / Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University).

Down on his Luck, Frederick McCubbin, Art Gallery of Western Australia #Art

Some good snail-themed poetry and art in this post: dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/drinking-d...

Apparently this was the first ever YouTube video: www.openculture.com/2025/06/watc...

Dante's Death Mask, photograph by David Lee

Drama of a vase of flowers from Elias van den Broeck. Today was his day.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Haunting, Odilon Redon, ca. 1893 #Art

A circus poster from 1892.

“How can you simultaneously be of the world - the family or community you live in - while the demands or comforts of #grief try to pull you away from it?” dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/bright-pha...

“Historical museum narratives aren’t necessarily inaccurate — but, much like historical movies, they are selective. They highlight certain events, actors and cause-and-effect chains to tell a particular kind of story.” theconversation.com/whose-story-...

Forgetful Angel, Paul Klee #Art

From Spectropia, or Surprising Spectral Illusions, Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of any colour, JH Brown, 1863 #Art

The Empty Space: A short blog about #grief. Written at Christmas but relevant to any time of the year, I think. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

“On the day the world ends / A bee circles a clover, / A fisherman mends a glimmering net. / Happy porpoises jump in the sea, / By the rainspout young sparrows are playing..." From A Song on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz #poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49451/...

Illustration from Nos Invisibles, Raffaele Mainella, 1907 #Art

From Festons und Decorative Gruppen by Martin Gerlach #Art

'A Fierce Tiger Drawn from Life', Utagawa Kunimaro #Art

Looking forwards and backwards: A blog and some reflective prompts for the beginning of the year. dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/looking-fo...

“The notion of play also often links to ideas of childhood and happiness – perhaps conjuring up notions of innocence. Either way, a time of less complexity, nervousness, or pressure than many of us are experiencing right now.” dangerousmeredith.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

“I can’t remember the tale, / but hear his voice still, a well / of dark water, a prayer. / And I recall his hands, / two measures of tenderness / he laid against my face…” From the moving poem The Gift by Li-Young Lee #poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43010/...

Detail from The Kiss, Gustave Klimt #Art

Sketch of a life belt, Leonardo da Vinci

Surprise in Terror, Joseph Ducreux, 1790 #Art

Lantern Plant Imitating Children at Play, Utagawa Hiroshige #Art

“Perspective-taking is a discipline, like physical fitness or musical skill. It requires intention, repetition, and a willingness to be bad at it initially.” - Isabella Martin houseofbeautifulbusiness.substack.com/p/this-story...

Sun in an Empty Room, Edward Hopper, 1963 #Art

An effect of the Sun, Normandy. By Gustave le Gray. #Art #Photography

“Kath’s act of kindness made me appreciate how much small gestures can mean – as well as what a lovely act of compassion making a meal for someone is.” Something simple and heartwarming for those who need it today. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It's Venus in Person! from Another World, by JJ Grandville, 1844

I just had to share this. The unbelievable courage of these people is truly moving. #Bushfires www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

Road, Isaac Levitan #Art

“We’re not in a moment of evolution. We’re in a moment of system expiry. AI hasn’t just introduced a new set of tools—it’s exposed the bankruptcy of the ones we built before it.” Some really interesting provocations in this: houseofbeautifulbusiness.substack.com/p/the-intell...

Dahlias, Henri Fantin Latour, 1873 #Art

“We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end of the second world war. The question is: how do we lead moral lives in this era?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Armillary Sphere, Albrecht Durer

Good advice and information in this article for any Australian living in an area at risk of bushfire. Keep safe guys. #Bushfire theconversation.com/my-home-is-i...

From an early draft of the Principia, Isaac Newton, c. 1665-1727