my methodology
by katherine f macdonald

Reflections on Another Serendipitous Discovery of Connectedness of Art and Science and Diversity of Thought.

Notes on Virginia Woolf - a little research spiral after reading Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency, by Olivia Laing (2020) and ‘Proust was a Neuroscientist’ by Johan Lehrer (2007) then listening to ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Virginia Woolf then watching Virginia Woolf's Night and Day by Tina Gharavi (2026)

Last year, I found myself in the company of people I’ve never met; writers, thinkers, observers, who somehow feel familiar. The kind who quietly rearrange your perspective without making a spectacle of it. Through sociology and anthropology especially, I’ve encountered voices that don’t just argue; they explain, untangle and steady something in me. There’s a clarity in their plainness, a reassurance in the fact that their ideas are not just felt but evidenced. Reading them is