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So It Goes….

May 3, 2016

“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in …

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The Quest: Books, One; Hearts and Souls, Nothing

October 21, 2015

Nothing’s easy. Fun, yes, easy, no. Episode three of the Omphalos Cafe is now live on Youtube. Attempted to draw …

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New is Old… and Old is New

July 8, 2015

“The new religion [Christianity, which was NOT our’s] destroyed almost all trace of the old [which was].”—Catherine Hills, The Anglo-Saxon …

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Life … Without (Uber) Metaphor

January 24, 2015

Can we do it? Can we live without the backstory, the underpinning of … God, for want of another term? …

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A Fragment of Biology

December 19, 2014

“History is a fragment of biology—the human moment in the pageantry of species.”—Will Durant, The Age of Louis XIV A …

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The Hero’s Deed (Dead?)

November 29, 2014

Yeah, I’ve used this image before, but it’s the best I know of heroism today: battered and outdated. I photoshopped …

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A Sacred Grove…. (Past and Present)

October 30, 2014

No, I’m not talking about my own personal sacred grove here at the Cafe, though for me that’s precisely what …

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Reflections From Outside the Circle…

September 15, 2014

“They are stuck with their metaphor and don’t realize it’s reference. They haven’t allowed the circle that surrounds them to …

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A Great Leap Forward…. Possibly

August 31, 2014

“The last time I saw him I asked him if he still believed—as he had once written—‘that we are at …

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A Foundational Text… For The Future

February 24, 2014

“… [W]hat are the foundational texts of Western civilization, that can bolster our belief in the almost boundless power of …

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