The problem is you think you have time. Now whether the Buddha said this or not, in its koan-like brevity, it explains a lot; the urgency of the task before us. …

Marriage is a play in three acts. At its best, it is a comedy romance full of lively conversation, intimacy, joy and laughter. People watching from the outside applaud and celebrate the union and from the inside it is light, effortless, intuitive and giving. …

I guess you are familiar with the term ‘woo woo’ — it’s one of those terms that always brings an ironic smile to my face because it has a lovely onomatopoeic ring to it — something like a comic bedsheet ghost trying to scare you or perhaps a visitation from…

What do you think about before you fall asleep? Is it the time you have to wake up in the morning, the duties and chores you keep or perhaps, darker more intimate thoughts that keep you awake – things like AI seizing global power before breakfast? Do you have an…

Simple pleasures

Chicken Little, the sky is falling in, and we all know it, even if we wallow in denial. Welcome to the age of anxiety where everything you hold sacred might be snatched away in a heartbeat. What do you hang on to in such times? …

2021 and the summer of anxiety

It’s easy to draw parallels with times present and times past. As I pointed out in an earlier blog quoting Marshall McLuhan, our modern senses are so overloaded by information aided and abetted by technology these days that we slip into pattern recognition rather…

Paying through the nose

It’s now two years since I last visited the UK. Re-reading a blog I wrote then on the impending farce we all know as Brexit, I feel I now have the necessary distance to review the details of our present badly written British sitcom irrevocably stained…

Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go… What does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?
Sophie Scholl

It was Friday at the start of an unseasonably fine and beautiful spring weekend. My wife and I had been out…