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Aesop Updates

Aesop created much that has lasted. I know very little about him and will leave the research about the man to you if you choose to pursue it. However, I am aware enough to recognise his writing seems to be often littered with wisdom and sound counsel. My Aesop project birthed when I wanted to try to take some of his fables and place them in contexts a little more ‘nowish’.

Three Bullocks and a Lion

We worked hard to build all we had created. We were safe from most external attacks. We stuck together. We protected each other. No nearby or remote comments, whatever they were, could harm us. We could exist, work and live together without fear and without harm, facing the tricky stuff together,...

The Fox and the Crab

The things that annoyed her were annoying her, increasingly. The more niggled she was, the more niggled she became until she was seeing things as unacceptable that were never that. Discontent bred discontent but to that process, she was blind. She saw the safety within ‘now’ as simply boring and ...

The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner

She wrote about it all over social media and presented her affirming view of it using whatever language she had at her disposal. She endorsed the actions of the rioters. She let others know where the violence was taking place in case they wanted to join in. She watched from afar, effectively shou...