Again Hesse’s ‘The Poet’….
“Therefore, I beg you to let me go my own way in loneliness for a while and devote myself to …
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Words Of A Genuine Shaman-Type….
I don’t usually quote at such length, but I’ve been returning to the following passage again and again since first …
The Plight Of The Struggling Artist….
This is from a response I wrote yesterday, with adaptations, to a comment I received from—with apologies Mame—a compassionate soul …
China Bound….
I never travelled much when I was younger. Too busy reading and earning a simple living… so I could …
Solitude….
After visitors or a few days in the company of others I inevitably crave solitude and silence. Nothing against …
‘Like A Magnetic Field… ‘
“Actually,…there is a formative force spontaneously working, like a magnetic field, to precipitate and organize the ethnic [local, historical] …
The Western Male Identity Crisis….
It’s completely understandable. For five hundred years we Western males have been fanning out across the oceans exploiting …
“I Ain’t The Problem… You’re The Problem!”
“Hey buddy, what’re you lookin’ at? There’s nothing here to see. Keep walkin’!” I had been strolling the …
Wise Words….
“But beyond that [the normal daylight working of the intellect] there is a thinking in primordial images—in symbols that …
I Hate Explanations….!
The Omphalos Cafe after fifteen years….. “The great stone that nearly closed the cleft from which the gases came …
Omphalos Cafe 