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A Blessedly Quiet Place….

January 10, 2021

  From the very beginning the Omphalos Cafe was conceived as a quiet place, a place away from the tumult …

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You ARE The Current!….

January 4, 2021

  ” …[T]his current of life, traversing the bodies it has organized one after another, passing from generation to generation, …

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Time Lapse….

January 1, 2021

   “… [L]ife is like a current passing from germ to germ through the medium of a developed organism.“—Henri Bergson, …

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On Krishnamurti, James Joyce, And History….

December 28, 2020

  Let me warn you: this post is far too long. It is an email I woke up and sent …

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A Final Word (Maybe) From The Doors Of Perception….

December 24, 2020

  I’ll share one more extended quote from Aldous Huxley’s The Doors Of Perception before putting it back on the …

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We Use Words Far Too Much….

December 22, 2020

  I take long walks up into the hills behind my place almost every day now. Yesterday with a light …

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The Magic Bus!

December 20, 2020

  I’m sitting in the driver’s seat of an empty bus. ‘C’ crew has disembarked for their shift at the …

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Words Fail, Again and Again….

December 18, 2020

  I include ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Zen,’ even ‘poetry’ and ‘yoga’ in the tags when I publish one of these mild …

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Sage Advice….

December 4, 2020

  Gully and Coker have just left the home of Sarah in Joyce Cary’s effulgent  classic The Horse’s Mouth. To …

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For Madmen Only!

October 25, 2020

  Those are the words which confronted Hermann Hesse’s fictional self Harry Haller while strolling the dark medieval streets of …

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