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2025
Watching Withnail & I 🎬They don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
Philosophy is its own problem. Reality is absolutely fine without it.
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This time of year, more than any, highlights how I hardly ever look back or forward. ‘Best of’s’ and ‘goals and predictions’ bring into sharp...
“When exactly were the “certain times” of which these are the un” — Joan Westenberg
Don’t worry. New stories and new forms of storytelling will emerge whether we want them to or not.
““I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.” — John Cage
It’s up!
““One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not...
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The first glass of Baileys over ice is just going down the hatch. Christmas has officially started.
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“…it’s worth asking, from time to time: Am I describing the world, or am I describing what it feels like to have been young once...
Pain without suffering
The pain of loss That rich, dull ache in the heart space Wave after wave of grief Raw, unmediated contact with what is Yet no...
Simply beautiful. “We are so often taught that we should aspire to extraordinary things: to public recognition, to great acts of service, or great works...
It finally hit me today that Christmas is only nine days away. Naturally I leapt into action, put the kettle and lay on the sofa...
“Most people are exhausted not because they care too much, but because they care about too many things they cannot touch. They are spread thin...
“Most people have never lived outside the mind’s theater. They experience life almost entirely as commentary…as stories about what’s happening, what might happen, what should...
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“Because most people mistake mental involvement for ethical engagement. They believe that if they are thinking intensely about suffering somewhere else…imagining scenarios, debating causes, broadcasting...
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“When I see someone in a state of anxiety, I say, ‘What is it that he wants?’ For unless he wanted something that was not...
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” — Mary Oliver
Watched: The Mastermind 🎬 Perfectly well made but at the end my wife and I looked at each other and wondered ‘what was the point...
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Weather not looking too clever tomorrow. Rain all day might just cause some flooding given how saturated the land is now. More on Thursday too…...
We deserved the win albeit by an own goal.
Feel life not something about life.
The big derby tomorrow. Not for a long while have both teams been so relatively evenly matched, only a point apart in the table. I’m...
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Work Christmas meal tonight. Could go one of two ways…
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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” — Khalil Gibran
“Embodiment hurts. The body recoils. The heart beats anyway. Breath comes whether the story approves or not. Nothing is waiting behind this. No payoff. This...
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You can’t take credit for yourself, only responsibility.
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Home. Late. Knackered. Feet up. Better. 😊
On the road.
Contact
Contact with what is. As it is. Unmediated. Unconditional. Bare feet on a cold stone floor.
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This Pebble 01 ring is the first wearable device to prick up my ears in years.Never been interested in any glasses, watches, bands or pins...
“Suffering doesn’t disappear from life, it disappears into life.” — Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo
“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.” — Jeanette Winterson
I don’t understand habit tracking. I mean I’ve looked it up and read all the words about it but I still don’t understand it.
“Effortlessness is not passivity; it is what remains when we stop insisting that life reorganize itself around our preferences.” — Amoda Maa, Allowing the inner...
Ran over the river bridge. Man, it’s running high, fast and dirty! Lots of debris and most of the paths underwater.
Collected our dog Toast’s ashes from the vet today. Thinking we’ll take some up to the mountains, some to the coast and save some for...
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