The Tour De L’Ile… Of Life!…
Me finishing the day!… Yesterday I rode my bicycle the 145 kms, 90 miles, around the circumference of the …
Author Archives: Jeff
Shinto… Simplicity And Awe….
“For Shinto, at root, is a religion not of sermons but of awe: which is a sentiment that may …
Zen Simplicity….
Meditation Gardens, D.T. Suzuki Museum, Kanazawa, Japan “The intellect proves itself as a kind of nuisance in more ways …
Les Foufounes….
Stepping out of my favourite Vietnamese restaurant last night was like plunging into a churning black sea with frothing …
“What To Do… What To Do…?”
Skagway, Alaska With the summer move behind me and having settled into my new place reasonably well I am …
The Street….
The heat and humidity of the day was relenting and a light breeze was blowing a blessed freshness over …
Yesterday And Today….
My generation was lucky. We crossed the fraught years of adolescence before home video games took hold towards …
Picturing The Flow Of Life….
Can you see the Life Flow here? This isn’t ‘literature.’ This isn’t me trying to ‘write’ something that …
500….!
Yesterday WordPress notified me I had just published my 500th post here at the Omphalos Cafe. ‘Really?’ I …
The Ten Thousand Voices….
““And do you know,” continued Siddhartha, “what word it [the river] pronounces when one is successful in hearing all …
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