Category Archives: Steve Tanham

Going Viral ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on March 12, 2020 by

There’s nothing funny about Covid-19, the China-originated Coronavirus that has just been declared a global pandemic. But the explosive spread of the infection throws a lot of light on the state of human nature. A friend of mine said, recently, … Continue reading →

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Echoes of the Bunkermen ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on March 5, 2020 by

I was born in the 1950s. It was an age riven by anxiety about nuclear war. Ten years after the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been destroyed by the first use of atomic-powered warfare, the west was still … Continue reading →

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Wisdom Breathes Out? ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on February 27, 2020 by

We seem to be wrestling with the recognition that an age is coming to an end, and that strange forms are filling the world with casual madness, behaving as though nothing hangs over, us; no piper calling for the line … Continue reading →

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The Flickering Present ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on February 20, 2020 by

I’ve taken a lot of photographs during the past ten years, but none of them like the one above. Taken at Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick, in December 2018, it depicts what I’ve called the ‘green flame’. The photo was … Continue reading →

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Voices in the Mist (2) ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on February 6, 2020 by

Continued from Part One. From a distance it looks too stark to be a monument. The eye is, initially, disappointed as the form makes its modernistic impact. Both the height of the pylons and the width of the base ( … Continue reading →

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The Sun, the Lion and the Ashes ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on January 23, 2020 by

We are in northern France, visiting relatives that were only re-discovered three years ago, after an eighty years gap… My paternal grandmother was the youngest sister of an elder brother (also Stephen) who survived the horrors of WW1, married a … Continue reading →

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Three Ghosts of Christmas Present ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on December 26, 2019 by

Unfolding nightmares can begin very innocently… My mother, who is nearly ninety years old, has vascular dementia. She’s had a wonderful life and is enjoying a blessedly slow decline of her faculties – to the extent that she’s still in … Continue reading →

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Vexed by the Tribe ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on August 15, 2019 by

I am vexed… It’s a word you don’t hear much, now. Old English, I believe. It describes an agitated state of mind – and possibly body – when something nagging can’t be solved. What I’m vexed about is the entrenchment … Continue reading →

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What’s the point of blogging?

Posted on May 24, 2019 by

Blogging is a commitment… it takes time, energy and work to produce a respectable blog. What starts as a free site often begins to cost money and, every so often, you will wonder whether or not the returns are worth … Continue reading →

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The Bedouin ~ Steve Tanham

Posted on May 23, 2019 by

Image by Cuyahoga from Pixabay It is said we learn most from those we would wish to emulate. Not copy, perhaps, but take from them an essence of thought, of action. If we are younger, of style, even… There must … Continue reading →

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