Peter Gilderdale's Flirting With Wisdom series reflects on the interplay between curiosity and conviction, blending personal stories, history, cultural critique, and philosophical musings. Each vignette invites readers to embrace the beauty of unfinished thinking and the art of holding life’s ongoing questions.
What thrives in one place might be unwelcome in another. Sometimes it’s not who you are, but where you are that decides — what blooms in one garden gets pulled up by the roots in another.
Dreams can light the way, but if they’re only about the finish line, they often leave us stranded. Purpose, on the other hand, carries you forward — even when the dream falls short.
A university should be a place where knowledge is woven together, not just pulled apart into individual threads. But what happens when the weft starts to fray?
The Edwardian postcard craze was the social media of its time, revealing a divide between those who believed in luck and those who saw success as a moral reward. A century later, are we any closer to reconciling hard work with fortune?
