Life … Without (Uber) Metaphor
Can we do it? Can we live without the backstory, the underpinning of … God, for want of another term? …
Tag Archives: culture
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 …
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Yeah, I’ve used this image before, but it’s the best I know of heroism today: battered and outdated.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 …
A Sacred Grove…. (Past and Present)
No, I’m not talking about my own personal sacred grove here at the Cafe, though for me that’s precisely what …
Tweet! Tweet!
Technology and what goes on here at the Omphalos Cafe do not always go hand in hand. In fact I …
Reflections From Outside the Circle…
“They are stuck with their metaphor and don’t realize it’s reference. They haven’t allowed the circle that surrounds them to …
A Great Leap Forward…. Possibly
“The last time I saw him I asked him if he still believed—as he had once written—‘that we are at …
