Just wanted to give a shout out to mtk at Quiet Presence who I stumbled across on Kagi’s Small Web. Beautiful photography on Mastodon, Bluesky,...
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Good afternoon.
Trouble at ‘mill
Work has taken on a rather sour tone of late. The general manager, who is the heart and soul of the place, is on maternity...
Good evening.
Tried Saturday Night Live UK. 😬 Not good. I felt like I’d been transported back to the late 80’s in not a good way at...
“Your mind is looking for an invincible model of reality, something solid to lean on. Fortunately, every time you lean on something, you fall right...
It’s that time of year. The Magnolias are out and I love them. Like cherry blossom, short lived but all the more intensely beautiful for...
Curiouser and curiouser
I have a meditative/ contemplative practice of sorts. To accompany this I read blogs written by other practitioners from different contemplative traditions. Not for answers...
“The Culture War is just two groups of people agreeing to hallucinate various demons so they can feel brave for fighting them.” — Joan Westenberg
No neutral ground
There is a conversation underway involving (at time of writing) Manton Reece, Greg Morris and Jeff Trebben. One of them is an AI 😉 It...
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” — Carl Rogers
“The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom. Those have always been where creative...
“Love flourishes best when it is no longer responsible for saving us—when it is allowed to be connection instead of compensation, presence instead of promise.”...
“Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious.” — Carl Jung
Good morning.
Good morning.
Delighted with this derby result particularly given our recent run of bad form.
A suitable spot in Eryri to scatter some of Toast’s ashes, this being her birthday weekend. She would have been 17.
Investigate, question, examine, interrogate anything for long enough and sooner or later it disappears.
“…what if this breath is enough? this moment is enough, these tears of sorrow or joy are enough? What if tomorrow never comes because life...
