The small cost of joy When we downsized from our three bedroom home to a two bedroom ground floor apartment we found ourselves with french windows opening onto a small patio. The view beyond is of a recreation park. The first thing we got was a bird-bath. In fact, being...See More »
Profile pictureAny stories to tell of your choice of profile picture. Or your "screen name"? My own picture is a flaming rose, an image drawn from the concluding lines of T.S.Eliot's "Four Quartets":- Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in...See More »
A Buddhist smorgasbordA few here are keen to propagate their own brand of what could be called "religion" so I am emboldened to begin a thread on the Dharma, AKA Buddhism. Made up of bits and pieces drawn from my own long journey through the "way of the Buddha". One guy,...See More »
Like the Stones Sad to see Charlie go. But Keef still going strong. Love the Start Me Up promo video.....hilarious! Hope it's meant to be!
InterfaithA commentator on the poetry of T. S. Eliot has written:- Eliot feels no compunction in alluding to the Bhagavad Gita in one section of the poem and Dante's Paradiso in the next. He neither asserts the rightness nor wrongness of one set of doctrines...See More »
Thunder on the Mountain - Bob Dylan I got the porkchops, she got the pie She ain't no angel and neither am I
A Catholics opinion of Thomas MertonAlthough not Catholic (and not Christian, in fact a non-theist) I have a great deal of time for the Catholic Trappist monk Thomas Merton. His Journals and Letters particularly have often been an inspiration for me. I am wondering what those who...See More »
From "Finnegans Wake" (James Joyce)The Gracehoper was always jigging ajog, hoppy on akkant of his joyicity