The phrase Eppur si muove, and yet it moves, is widely attributed to Galileo Galilei.
It is said he uttered it under his breath after being forced by the Inquisition to recant his defence of the heliocentric worldview - the claim that the Earth moves around the Sun. Whether or not those exact words were spoken, they carry a weight that has long outlived the moment: the quiet insistence that truth remains, even when denied.
This is the spirit in which Dispatches from the Renaissance is written.
We are living through an age in which inner life has been absorbed into the logic of optimisation. Health is measured by numbers. Rest is repackaged as recovery. But beneath the surface, something quieter is unfolding. A return. A remembering. A movement not forward, but inward. Something older, slower, enduring, and wise. We may not yet have the full language for it, but we recognise its contours. Less spectacle, more substance.
Eppur si muove speaks to that movement. It reminds us that beneath the speed and certainty of modern life, there is another rhythm. The slow rhythm of contact, sincerity, and truth. Of inner life returning to its rightful place. It is not loud. It is not obvious. But it is happening. And it is ours to deepen and grow.
This phrase anchors the project not only because it carries historical defiance, but because it evokes something we all intuitively know. Truth cannot be erased. It may be suppressed, overwritten, rebranded - but still it moves. In the body, in the breath, in the shared glance. In the subtle shifts we make when we begin to live differently.
This newsletter is a record of that shift. A series of field notes and observations on cultures of sincerity. A place to remember what we know when we are most awake:
We can live with uncertainty.
Reverence is to be cultivated.
Presence is not a luxury.
Truth is not fixed. It moves.
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Tina
