The Long Game – Vox Meditantis
When asked who embodies success, Catherine thinks first of her graduate supervisor – not famous or wealthy, but profoundly present across forty years of teaching. A reflection on influence th…| Vox Meditantis
When asked who embodies success, Catherine thinks first of her graduate supervisor – not famous or wealthy, but profoundly present across forty years of teaching. A reflection on influence th…| Vox Meditantis
Harbour psychiatrist Catherine plates lemon‑fennel shrimp risotto, stirs safety into supper, then walks to Bartók with a man who volunteers the washing‑up - attention as love, stock as testimony, New Corinth fog lifting like a benediction over second chances.| Vox Meditantis
Dorothy Hill classified thousands of fossil corals, built Queensland's geological map, and opened Australian universities to women - then vanished from history. She explains why taxonomic labour disappears, how ancient reefs predict modern collapse, and what she got wrong about mentoring.| Vox Meditantis
A weary shopkeeper and mother in 1850 reflects on duty, lost learning, and the heavy keys at her waist. Between trade, faith, and her son’s schooling, she weighs what knowledge truly opens - and what remains forever locked.| Vox Meditantis
Catherine explores what counts as history - not just televised disasters but inherited silence, shipyard closures, and yesterday's watercolour risk. At the Historical Society, she asks: whose memory gets archived? Personal and collective trauma blur in consulting rooms and harbour light.| Vox Meditantis
Alice Catherine Evans discovered that raw milk transmitted deadly brucellosis from cattle to humans - then spent a decade being dismissed by male scientists and dairy interests who valued profit over proof. She contracted the disease herself, worked whilst chronically ill, and waited for men to confirm what she'd already proved.| Vox Meditantis
At a moonlit crossroads in October 1892, a Victorian merchant reflects upon the circular nature of trade, the weight of historical memory, and the moral dimensions of his itinerant travelling life. Every journey he takes shapes both fortune and character.| Vox Meditantis
Catherine registers for watercolour class, accepts a concert invitation, and sits for the Historical Society as subject rather than interviewer. A rainy Tuesday prompts her to name the risk she's avoided: ordinary intimacy without the clinical frame to hide behind.| Vox Meditantis
Hertha Sponer built the experimental foundations of quantum chemistry, developed methods still taught worldwide, and trained 35 scientists - yet history remembers her as "Franck's assistant." She explains how interdisciplinary innovation becomes invisible, why exile shattered her career's momentum, and what bridge-builders lose when traffic flows freely across their work.| Vox Meditantis
In a misty October orchard, a headmistress contemplates the stars and the dawning age of machinery. Between duty and desire, she reveals her deepest ambition: to create a technical college for young women, despite the risk of failure and ridicule.| Vox Meditantis
A psychiatrist examines what pride means when you’ve spent decades learning to dissolve the self. Not credentials or reputation, but something quieter: thirty years of steady showing up, inhe…| Vox Meditantis
428 West Second Street, Reno, Nevada November 15th, 1955 My Dearest Joseph, Well, honey, would you look at that! I’ve been sitting here with your last letter spread out on my vanity table lik…| Vox Meditantis
Reflecting on what makes a good neighbour, Catherine considers the quiet disciplines of attention, the circulation of small kindnesses, and the courage required to show up consistently across years…| Vox Meditantis
Eighteen years after her mother’s death, psychiatrist Catherine Bennett finally confronts the guest room shrine she’s carefully avoided sorting – a poignant repository of Elizabet…| Vox Meditantis
Britain’s first qualified female physician discusses her ingenious exploitation of legal loopholes, groundbreaking migraine research, and creation of women-only hospitals. Elizabeth Garrett A…| Vox Meditantis
A teenager sacrifices everything for belonging, standing seventeen floors above a dying world, bound by blood to her new family.| Vox Meditantis
A merchant woman reflects on displacement, progress, and the fires of industry whilst navigating the gilded halls of Carlton House.| Vox Meditantis
An imprisoned artist meditates on beauty and consciousness, exploring what existence without calculation means while shadows lengthen across his solitary cell.| Vox Meditantis
Discover how mathematician Cathleen Synge Morawetz proved shock-free supersonic flight impossible, bridged pure theory with aircraft design, and became the first woman to lead America’s premi…| Vox Meditantis
Aboard a Mediterranean-bound steamer, a woman of learning fixates on revolution, power, and the skill she most desires: commanding attention.| Vox Meditantis
The first woman to win mathematics’ highest honour, Maryam Mirzakhani transformed how we understand curved spaces and complex surfaces. In this intimate conversation, she reflects on cultural…| Vox Meditantis
British officer confronts machinery and sacrifice in Mesopotamia, questioning moral duties neglected whilst overseeing war’s terrible efficiency on blood-stained ground.| Vox Meditantis
A Scottish woman’s diary chronicles her spiritual exile after the Free Church Disruption, crossing borders in search of faithful worship.| Vox Meditantis
Reflections from the Threshold of Reason and Feeling| Vox Meditantis
Behind foster houses,dandelions grow wild,nobody’s flowers,nobody’s rules.I pick themlike treasures,blow seedsinto summer air—wishes scatteredon wind.Seven homes,but dandelionsbloom eve…| Vox Meditantis
