Hermits around the web – Hermitary
news, sites, and pages of interest about hermits and solitude
Popularizing Eastern philosophy for practica life experience are a couple of recent articles. Online magazine Psyche offers a short piece on Taoism : “How to be Useless,” with the byline: “Follow the Daoist way – reclaim your life and happiness by letting go of the need to produce, strive or serve a purpose.” Another article …
The Mirror (UK) offers this headline and byline. Headline : “Hermit woman, 77, who lived like 18th century peasant gets electricity for first time.” Byline: “Hermit Agafya Lykova, 77, lives in a remote timber home 100 miles away from anyone in Siberia and is only now getting a solar panel, which will power up a …
The Tablet, a Catholic UK publication, recently offered a useful article on women hermits, authoritatively written by author and commentator Sara Maitland, author of A Book of Silence and How to be Alone. The title is “Palladius mentions 2,975 women living as hermits in the Egyptian desert.” (Full article available to registered users). URL: https://www.thetablet.co.uk/columnists/3/21026/palladius-mentions-2-975-women-living-as-hermits-in-the-egyptian-desert
Presented in 2012 by filmessay, an Italian organization distributing short films, Wooden People is a documentary film about a solitary man living in a Belarus village. He is its last resident, but has created a simulated world. From the film website: “Mikalaj is an old man and the only inhabitant of a village in the …
Le Petit Bleu d’Agen reports on a series of lectures and tours of the archaeology of the ancient church remanants associated with the legendary saints, martyrs, and hermits St. Caprasius and the female St. Faith, associated with Agens, a town in France. Nowadays a lycée de l’Ermitage offers tours and lectures. URL: https://www.petitbleu.fr/2021/07/22/vivre-en-ermite-une-experience-inedite-proposee-par-destination-agen-samedi-9687367.php