Nature. Imagination. Being human.

There’s always
more to wonder about.

Stories, thoughtful research and the questions that turn an ordinary day into something worth looking at a little longer.

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Wayne and Orion sharing a quiet moment outdoors at dusk

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Possibility & potential

How Many Talents Are Waiting for an Instrument?

What happens when a person discovers an ability only after the right tool, opportunity or environment finally appears? Music provides the opening question. Human specialisation makes it much larger.

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The mind & identity

How Much of Yourself Have You Yet to Meet

Carl Jung’s ideas about persona, shadow and individuation open a question about how much of ourselves we have yet to discover.

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Invention & imagination

The Little Boat That Opened a Bigger World

Tesla’s radio-controlled boat opens a conversation about the machines he pictured in his mind, and what knowledge gives our imagination to work with.

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Piano: Gregory Hayes. Jung: ETH-Bibliothek. Tesla’s boat: Wikimedia Commons. Image credits.

Wayne at a wooden desk, pen in hand, looking out across the countryside

From the writing desk

More to wonder about.

A few thoughts are finding their way onto the page. Some start with a walk, others with a question that refuses to leave us alone.

There will be more stories and research to share as the work takes shape.

A different way in

Take the wandering path.

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Wayne’s Wandering Paths

The Web Across the Path

A spider’s web stops Wayne on the garden path and opens a question about building, repair and what a spider knows. A Wayne’s Wandering Paths short story.

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Wayne & Orion

The Garden on the Back of an Envelope

A garden, a chair and an idea that leads somewhere neither expected. An illustrated Wayne and Orion story about imagination and possibilities.

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Wayne & Orion

A Name for the Path

Who called Orion Orion? A woodland walk opens a conversation about names, direction and the person walking the path. Read the four-page Wayne & Orion comic.

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