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Category Archives: The City

Springtime In Paris… Camera In Hand!

March 19, 2025

  It’s been 35 years.   I was about 25 years old when I first visited Paris. By that time …

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Surfing The Metro….

March 15, 2025

  The Metro is our subway. As I seldom sit down I ‘surf’ it almost every day into town. Only …

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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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Simple Life…..

March 10, 2025

  Philip stands and explains something I cannot for the Life of me get my head around. The words bob …

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“Neurotic Children….”

May 3, 2024

  “People who know nothing about nature are of course neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality. They are …

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Our Lost Oneness….

February 19, 2024

    Try to imagine the evolution, the organic blossoming of human interaction from families and clans through the vast …

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The “Fathomless Secret”…

October 13, 2023

 “A fathomless secret of the cosmic flowings that we call Life is their separation into two sexes.”—Oswald Spengler, The Decline …

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Get With the Times (or, Become the Becoming)

September 7, 2020

  Actually, not much chance of that happening. We as a species are too bound to tradition. We don’t like …

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The City’s Gravitational Pull…

January 7, 2019

The psycho-spiritual galactic core…   “The Cosmopolis itself, the supreme Inorganic, is there, settled in the midst of the Culture-landscape, …

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