Yearly Archives: 2019
Clots as Large as Eggs.
What women never mention is that they are forever casting runes, the way the salt flecks the pastry flour, the way the apple peels fall to the table, the way the children’s shoes are arranged in the hallway, all these…
Car-Creche-Dummies
On modern childcare dilemmas, imagined and otherwise….in the light of a recent exposé of abusive daycare facilities.
Thieves of Time and Cherry Stone Pillows
There was a time and time to gather cherry stones over the season, which were then made into pillows for loved ones who could warm them by the stove before bed on cold winter nights to ward off aches…
On Autism and Vaccines
Twitter thread by Toby Rogers PhD Autism is an epidemic. The first autism prevalence study (Treffert, 1970) showed an autism rate of less than 1 in 10,000 kids. Today the autism rate in the U.S. in 1 in…
Michel Houellebecq’s Itch
On the way from David Icke to Michel we chat about consciousness, knowledge, ego, the dark night of the soul, smashing the idol of the self, ambition or lack thereof, what is meaningful work, the willing participation of the people…
Blossoming
This has been a truly bountiful year for tree blossom. The hedgerows are full of flowers, more than usual, and now, as May wanes, whenever there is a breeze the petals of the Hawthorn’s blossoms fall in slow-moving drifts…
Communal Wombs
A brief musing on Surrogacy in general, with particular reference to Full Surrogacy Now : Feminism Against Family, a recently published book by Sophie Lewis
On Forgetting Fairytales
Taber school in Barcelona, removing fairytales and books from young children’s bookshelves, and no doubt to be followed by other schools doing likewise, is a deeply ideological act, and part of a wider process of historical revisionism that infantilises us…
After Christchurch
Discussion with Branko Malic on issues brought to mind after the dreadful massacre at Al Noor Mosque, Christchurch
"Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.'' ~ Jorge Luis Borges
 | Rich on Zen Monk Ryokan |
 | Deepankar on The Tailor from Almora. |
 | yessupply on The Hierophant and Alchem… |
 | nikita rathore on Triphala ~ Ayurvedic Toni… |
 | Lezlie Ward on Radiance Sutra 38 |
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