Call it a two-fold experiment. 

  One: can I maintain a post a day pace over a long period of time? Last year I began posting again in March but dropped it when I flew across the ocean and participated in a transhumance. Upon return I never took up the cause again and the Cafe remained closed. 

  And two: can an audience or community be built over a period of time in this advanced who-has-time age-of-distraction culture? And mind you, without me continually hectoring readers who chance by to “LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!!” In fact, more often than not I appear to come off as actively discouraging readership. At times I seem to embrace the words of a YouTube film critic I thoroughly enjoy named ‘The Critical Drinker:’ “Go away now!”

  You see, at heart the Omphalos Cafe is both open to all and yet somewhat exclusive at the same time. 

But how so, I hear you say, both ‘open and exclusive?’

Firstly, I’d respond, in the words of gloomy German Nobel Prize laureate Hermann Hesse, it’s for “madmen only!”

And secondly, “open to all of course, but only to all those who are actively seeking, actively involved in questioning, growth, and perhaps the promotion of newer healthier communities.”

  Visit a Zen master with the wrong attitude expecting something for free and you are liable to be run out of the room with a few stinging whacks from his staff and a sharp “Go away now!”

  Anyway, the sun is shining outside as I write this and Life is truly a gift regardless of how many join me along the journey. 

  Blessings, and thanks for reading. 

Thoughts on the difficulty of building community today? Why not have fun with it at omphaloscafe@gmail.com!