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“The Age ofSolitude” – essay

Psyche offers a comprehensive essay “The Age of Solitude: Why More People Are Choosing to Be Alone—and What It Means for Society” by Choas Cabinet. Byline: “Beyond the stigma: How intentional silence is becoming a modern survival strategy for the soul.” From the essay: “Solitude is being repackaged today. In the calm of a corner café, on solitary walks of many miles, or in nights without screens, increasingly people are discovering that solitude can be an act of empowerment, even liberation. No longer connoting loneliness, solitude is increasingly being redefined as a decision: a conscious taking of time and space for reflection, renewal, and focus.”

URL: https://vocal.media/psyche/the-age-of-solitude-why-more-people-are-choosing-to-be-alone-and-what-it-means-for-society

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Avoesis – film

Psyche offers a 9-min. film by Mykhailo Bogdano titled “Avoesis,” a term coined by ecologist Liam Heneghan to describe a “form of quietness, one that is not precisely silence.” Byline: “There’s a nourishing calm in quietly wandering, far from goals and distractions.”

From the website: “In his treatment, Bogdanov interweaves interviews with Heneghan and the Catholic priest and writer Edward Tverdek with scenes depicting Jesus’ 40 days spent wandering the desert, deepening the timeless and spiritual dimensions of the ideas at hand.”
URL: https://psyche.co/videos/theres-a-nourishing-calm-in-quietly-wandering-far-from-goals-and-distractions

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Patagonia hermit

LM Neuquen (Argentine news site) reports astory titled “He left everything to go and live in the Patagonian desert: who is the hermit ofRoute 40.” Thirty-five year old Javier Soto lives in an abandoned astronomical observatory. After conventional city work he decided to drop convention and seek “purpose” in taking care of a family legacy and the gravesite of his uncle in the mmiddle of a steppe in southern Argentina. Decades before Soto’s arrival, grand plans for the observatory station were discussed by scientific and university groups but abandoned fifty years ago. (Article in Spanish)

URL: https://www.lmneuquen.com/patagonia/dejo-todo-y-se-fue-vivir-al-desierto-patagonico-quien-es-el-hombre-mas-ermitano-la-ruta-40-n1226522

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The hermit of Collón Curá

Mejor Informado, an Argentine media site, updates an earlier entry in this blog titled “Argentino Aranea, Argentine hermit,” which related the legacy of the deceased Argentine hermit. He had lived next to a busy highway, but after his passing most of the old dwelling was looted. Today only picture-postcard scene of the hermit’s cottage remain, and Aranea’s ashes still on the grounds of the old house. The new article (Spanish language) is titled “Saquearon lo poco que quedaba en la casa del ermitaño de Collón Curá,”

URL: https://www.mejorinformado.com/regionales/saquearon-poco-quedaba-casa-ermitano-collon-cura_1767722893