New is Old… and Old is New
“The new religion [Christianity, which was NOT our’s] destroyed almost all trace of the old [which was].”—Catherine Hills, The Anglo-Saxon …
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The New… and the Old
“The new religion destroyed almost all trace of the old.”—Catherine Hills, The Anglo-Saxon Settlement of England, from The History and …
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 …
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Yeah, I’ve used this image before, but it’s the best I know of heroism today: battered and outdated.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 …
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