Everyday Zen
Every moment Zen. Of course that’s what the Cafe is about. There is a retreat, a withdrawal, in order to …
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Life … Without (Uber) Metaphor
Can we do it? Can we live without the backstory, the underpinning of … God, for want of another term? …
Je Suis… Omphalos
Forgiveness is the word for all. Here at the Cafe we don’t take sides. The world says a crime has …
Sorry, Had to Post Again… If Only For the Scenery
Have been reviewing posts of late with the idea of somehow mashing them into a digital book. Things do go …
A Fragment of Biology
“History is a fragment of biology—the human moment in the pageantry of species.”—Will Durant, The Age of Louis XIV A …
Ambition?
Chatted with an old friend last night. He finished university, became an engineer, married, moved to Florida and raised two …
A Highly Effective System of Communication?
“The link that binds all these individuals together into one coordinated super-organism is a highly effective system of communication.”—David Attenborough, …
The Hero’s Deed (Dead?)
Yeah, I’ve used this image before, but it’s the best I know of heroism today: battered and outdated. I photoshopped …
Let’s Make Our Own Bibles
“This experience, which happens over and over, only convinces me the more that ‘we’ create nothing, that ‘it’ is doing …
A Larger Experience of God
“You have to go past the imagined image of Jesus. Such an image of one’s god becomes a final obstruction, …
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