The weir at Beeston, snapped soon after our move to Nottingham in November 2018. See these gates? Their concrete platform is two metres above the river. In this next image, taken in late January this year, we can just make … Read More »
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Some Latinates are so commonplace I’ve stopped italicising them. Ergo, etcetera – what kind of anal repressive writes that out in full anyway? – and the Facto Sisters, De and Ipso, are cases in point. Others I now find so … Read More »
Continued from Part 5 Note the child. Many kids appreciate the benefits and take well to meditation. The ’80s BBC 1 series QED – that which was to be proved – popularised scientific principles by applying them in various arenas. … Read More »
Just another dreary Monday morning – but what happens next has generated 27.5 million hits on Youtube.
Attenborough on the last day of 2020 … A happy new year to one and all …
The Andrew Cohen Community at Foxhollow, Massachusetts, 2002 Did I fail in Part 4 to show, as any storyteller should, those ‘deep’ or ‘heightened’ states of ‘non dual’ consciousness I say were milestones on my road to culthood? In fairness … Read More »
What would you do if stuck in a lift with John Pilger? Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, in a new book reviewed here by Media Lens, quotes with approval a fellow journalist saying he’d stick pins in his eyes to … Read More »
I know nothing that would equal the Appassionata. I could hear it played every day. Marvellous, supernatural music. When I hear it, I always think, maybe with naive, childish pride: What wonders human beings are capable of accomplishing! Lenin. A quarter-millennium ago … Read More »
Continued from part 3 … On the road to Rishikesh/I was dreaming more or less/And the dream I had was real/And the dream I had was real … John wrote those lines shortly before the Beatles, disillusioned by the Maharishi’s … Read More »