Today's is another, "When will I ever learn? I should be able to do better than this", moment. Journals. From time to time I...

  In sorting out my surplus belongings and noting the emotional silt that stirs up in the pond of my being, I realise that I am operating un...

  It's a very salutary process for me, culling my belongings yet again . On the plus side, going through them carefully and acknowledgin...

  When I began this, my only thought was of taking a painless and leisurely route to culling my accumulated bits and pieces, sorting through...

  Today I am moving on two things that I thought I'd love and cherish for ever. One is an Apple stand for my i-phone, pleasingly minimal...

The concept of taking refuge can be seen in all spiritual paths, but we are indebted to the Buddhist tradition for the specific phrase. In t...

  Today I moved on this box of seeds and seed potatoes. The seed potatoes are already sprouting! I got them with the intention of growing ve...

It's 2021. In 2012 I had what I called a 365 year — every day throughout that year I disposed of at least one item, so I could be sure b...

In 1895 the French polymath Gustav Le Bon published an influential book called La Psychologie des Foules, translated in English as The Crowd...

  Thinking about statues and images of Jesus brought back to mind a folder of pictures I've had stashed away.  I drew these about 35 yea...