I don’t think I do know when to ‘unplug’. But I do get to points where I feel I have ‘unplugged’. It happened in Amsterdam. Our Amsterdam experience: an introduction You could say our Amsterdam experience was defined in the wake of its progression: the place of one’s status quo existence becoming a mist that rides … More I don’t think I do know when to ‘unplug’. But I do get to points where I feel I have ‘unplugged’. It happened in Amsterdam. Our Amsterdam experience: an introduction

Olivia Laing tells us as her book The Garden Against Time closes that she loves a line  from the fourteenth-century Psalter by Richard Rolle: This boke is cald garden closed, wel enseled, paradyse full of appils’. In contrast she goes on to say that her ‘book is a garden opened and spilling over. The common … More Olivia Laing thinks the answer to this question is to ‘cultivate your garden’. But she shows us what a political act that is!