Still Life With Politics: Dispatches from the Old Normal

In this collection of essays, Reg Darling explores the porous and constantly shifting boundaries between personal and political, public and private, profane and sublime, and sensual and spiritual through the medium of his own examined and re-examined life. The stories from which these essays are woven reveal the psychological, moral, and spiritual complexities that arose from the experiences of a traumatic childhood, coming of age in the countercultural tumult of the late sixties, a thirty-year career in social services, and a lifelong devotion to visual art, literature, and wild nature.