Ahhhh…Just Breath….
It’s us against them…. Or so we’ve been led to believe. It’s in our nature, our makeup. Hardwired, if you …
Tag Archives: history
Dangerous Stuff….
‘“Mankind,” however, has no aim, no idea, no plan, any more than the family of butterflies or orchids.’—Oswald Spengler, Decline …
The Quest: Books, One; Hearts and Souls, Nothing
Nothing’s easy. Fun, yes, easy, no. Episode three of the Omphalos Cafe is now live on Youtube. Attempted to draw …
City Man…
Abstract: existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence: abstract concepts such as …
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 …
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 …
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 …
