contemplation
Slow reading, deep thinking
Here's something we do in the salons
On Listening
in which I try to be quiet
Know Thyself
What if to examine life means not to examine your own life, your own subjectivity, but rather literally to examine life?
Peak Experience
Arthur Worthington expected to see symmetry. He expected regularity. He expected what he thought of as beauty. His mind, as he said, was “filled with an ideal splash - an “Auto-Splash” - whose perfection may never be realised.”
The holidays are done
There is such a damned lot to do and never enough time to do all of it.
Stillness
Alles ist gut wie es ist, said the stillness. Everything is good as it is.
Walking with Death
Death was my companion on this walk.
On Sadness
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys.
On Being Here
Is this world not enough?