After The Escape
“Today I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I …
Tag Archives: Inspiration
Mead Of The Muse
“Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses No long winded disquisition here. …
Words Flowering From A Quiet Place
Quiet words issuing from a quiet place So quiet and still They cannot be heard Except By the quietest hearts …
Jottings…From The Foot Of The Mountain
“The art required is to make sounds, words, and forms, whether of base or of noble provenance, open out in …
Four (ok five) Quotes Around An Unseen Center
“God is in all things as being, as activity, as power.”—Meister Eckhart, c. 1300 “Eckhart, of course, was excommunicated: by …
Better Late Than Never, I Suppose
“And the second [Spenglarian pseudomorphoses] might be termed the Levantine revenge; namely, the massive diffusion of Pauline Christianity over the …
These? These Are Not My Truths….
The Omphalos. The Hub around which it all revolves. “Around which what revolves?” I hear someone say. It. Everything. Life, …
Failure Of Nerve?
“Professor Gilbert Murray has termed the centuries between the flowering of classical Athens and the growth of the radically different …
Playing My Magic Flute
*** Sitting here at the kitchen table, cast propped on a chair and tea at my elbow, pondering the interconnectedness …
Casting… The Dice
Quiet, contemplative days. Forced inactivity a welcome respite from the daily round. Not that the daily round was overly disagreeable. …
Omphalos Cafe 