500….!
Yesterday WordPress notified me I had just published my 500th post here at the Omphalos Cafe. ‘Really?’ I …
Category Archives: Time
Hubris….
Hubris. A quick definition search brings up arrogance and an excess of pride or self-confidence. In Greek tragedy …
“Act Your Age!”….
“Instead of intelligently instructing and quietly influencing, people now strew seeds and weeds together indiscriminately on all sides; no …
The Old Man And The See…..
Ya, that’s a little awkward. The ‘see’ and not the ‘sea.’ For I am referring to the perception …
Moving Day (Still?!) ….
Symphony in the parc… So furniture is still making its way between old and new apartments and the tight …
Moving Day (Or Week) II ….
What a mess! So the detritus of four decades of reading lie in a motley pile against a wall …
Nostalgia! … Or Arrested Development?
The year must have been ‘78 or ‘79 and I was fifteen years old. The costumed and face-painted …
The End Of An Epoch… And The Birth Of….?
The West, born of Germanic and then Viking marauders, took to the high seas in the fifteenth century. The …
A Long And Winding Road….
What a difference thirty five years can make! Last time in Paris I was lost, utterly lost. I …
The Priests, The Shaman, And The Mystic….
We are born into a group, and membership in the group and the boundary with other groups can be …
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