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GR is, of course, not a poem. It's a 900-page novel. Fifty years old this year. But I was so bruised, amused, amazed by it that I wanted...

So I was in London last night at the Barbican. My brother, niece and myself had booked tickets to Kyrill Gerstein play Rachmaninoff's...

I got this interesting link from Reasons to be Cheerful (David Byrne's excellent website). How do concert spaces make themselves more...

A participant in the last retreat I led asked a very good question that often arises in retreats. “It’s all very well us pondering our...

This is the second in my series of Victory Mind blogs exploring the ways in which we can gird our minds against the incursions of Big...

Daniel and I sit down, rather solemnly. Me with a bowl of ice cream. He with a nice glass of wine. We want this to be a good and...

Alistair takes time to listen to James Macmillan's dazzling 5th Symphony, Le Grand Inconnu, and feels the Holy Spirit fluttering.

A trip to A favourite London bookshop unearths one of the great poets I’d never heard of.

I must have started and re-started To the Lighthouse three or four times in my life. I’ve always thought that I should love this book....

Just watched mesmerising film by Jennifer Peedom, simply entitled River. in the tradition of Koyaanasqatsi and Baraka it is mostly images...

Sometimes when Daniel goes away, it's a chance for me to do nothing very much. When he's here we hang out or I have to carve time to do...

On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, I was thinking about how we relate to those events – both at the time...

This is another blog fished out of the annals. I probably wrote it about 10 years ago. I have subsequently read Joyce’s magnum opus for...

Adrian’s boyfriend was telling me about epiphytic plants which are not directly parasitic on the tree they dwell on but rather hop on…

That voice is all wrong, really. It’s not formal, it’s not ‘correct’ but it gushes and it’s unstoppable. It IS supersumptous. And that’s wh

I have been really deeply inspired by the experience of leading the Dharma Days for Mindsprings. After my initial introduction to the...

NOTE: I think in this last blog I am in some sense arguing myself OUT of a position that I have thoughtlessly held for many years. That...

In the first part of this blog on language and thinking, I argued that the human experience of thinking is fundamentally grounded in...

I’ve been grappling with the issue of language/thinking for many decades, but lately have had a few clarifying insights that I’d like to...

2 weeks in LA and Mendocino County, 2 hours North of San Francisco. Have been unconsciously avoiding America ever since Bush came to...