We no more think our thoughts than we beat our hearts or digest our food. Thought is automatic, spontaneous and just as essential as all...
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It’s a beautiful day out there. A walk across the fields in the sunshine for coffee seems like a good idea.
We don’t half make a fuss given the fact that we don’t actually experience our own death.
Do blog URLs matter?
I don’t know. It just crossed my mind when signing up for this Scribbles blog. Unlike, for instance, micro.blog where your default blog URL is...
Nothing has any more or less meaning than anything else. Everything is its own meaning in of itself, as it is.
“"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain. And so obvious and so simple and yet everybody rushes around in...
Watching me watching her.

Our dog Toast, 16 next month, always has some part of her body hanging out of her bed. This evening it’s the front end.


““The present moment is the only moment we have. If we're not in the present moment, we're not alive.”” — Charlotte ‘Joko’ Beck

“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. — Aldous Huxley”


Only just made it in to work this morning. The combination of snow melt and overnight rain has caused widespread flooding. Some roads were only...



Melting already.

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often are a torment for me, and I need...