'The White Stone'

Synchronicity and Esther de Waal's little book about letting go

Me on the beach in Cyprus, moments after plucking the white stone from the sea

This last week — where do I begin? Let’s start with my arrival a few days ago in Oxford. I was there to give a couple of talks at a conference of conservatives. One of my addresses was about the 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky film “Andrei Rublev,” which is considered one of the greates…