Episode 59 - Render unto Caesar

This week I am grieving my dear aunt, and cannot write.We’re on an in-between-essays week, so here are four things for you, sent with care, sadness and bursts of feral joy, all mixed up, as befits such violent times. There’s a somewhat ranting letter to a friend from 2022, plus three poems against tyranny and empire, inner and outer. Here, Boudica stands for a correct, noble, defence of lifeways, kin and land, even if doomed. I see echoes of St Wite.See you next week, and thank you for all the calls, comments and emails after last week’s piece, I appreciate everyone who reached out with their own outlandish stories of transformation and unknowing.First published here with full transcript, notes and more images, February 5th 2024. Get full access to Uncivil Savant at carolineross.substack.com/subscribe