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Category Archives: Literature

The Priests, The Shaman, And The Mystic….

March 14, 2025

  We are born into a group, and membership in the group and the boundary with other groups can be …

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“Come Out Of There!”….”No.”…

March 13, 2025

  The proprietor hails from eastern France, near the Swiss border. “Magnifique!” he nodded when I asked if it was …

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Our (Lost) Sacred Connection To Nature….

April 29, 2024

  This is from an email I recently sent an old friend: Great getting together. Like I briefly said, I …

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Poetic Gold….

October 27, 2023

 “The poet is the intense centre of the life of his age to which he stands in a relation than …

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The Return….

July 8, 2023

  “It is to obey the command of life that reason finally comes, not through cowardice, but through courage, to …

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The View From On High…

August 23, 2022

From an email to a friend:   Beautifully put, Blaire, for we are all one family, and more or less …

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It’s Coming….

July 21, 2022

I haven’t created a video in over two years now, so it never ceases to amaze me that people still …

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The Decline Of Culture/Character….

February 1, 2022

Thanks for an excellent question, Jon. Why today’s paucity of genuine ‘literature?’ And it’s one I’ve attempted to tackle in …

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Goodbye To All That…..

December 31, 2019

Amy, my Mobile Mountain Hermit’s Hut It’s damp and chilly outside. Typical Vancouver winter weather. Earlier I took a walk, …

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Gates And Doors….

December 7, 2018

  In a relatively recent email to a reader of the Cafe I had tried to describe how I imagined this …

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