He’s Just Had Coffee

I’ve been putting a simple façade page over the front of this site for a while to make a kind of index of projects. The times we live in have been wearing away my attachment to “timbomb” though… it gets more troubled reactions than it used to. Then it occurred to me I could just […]

Mornings are a fragile time. One of the ways I’m trying to adapt my practice to stay more balanced is to create a more tranquil morning and even a more tranquil working environment most of the time. Version 1 is a set of practices, some in my computer, some in physical space to establish and […]

… as they say. I alluded to various things going on in an earlier post and I’ve thought perhaps I should actually put more news up. Heck, anything’s better than no content, right. Besides, we’re all friends here… Just before heading off for the Christmas/New Year break, and after a few email conversations with the Formation […]

After a long illness, Robert Anton Wilson, died on January 11. Various people, R. U. Sirius, Fr. Jordan+, Bro. Jeremy, Bill Harryman (from whom I got the news), lvx23 and I’m certain many others offer tributes both short and long. I read “The Illuminatus! Trilogy” when I was 18… Bob is almost single-handedly responsible for the […]

Two quotes from “Angels In America” that I’m very fond of: “In this world there’s a kind of… painful progress… longing for what we’ve left behind and… dreaming ahead. At least, I think that’s so.” - Harper Pitt, “Angels in America” “The body is the garden of the soul” […]

Those last couple of months seemed madly busy. It’s such a grace to have the time each year to just run away for a couple of weeks over Christmas. I’ve come back to just as long a ToDo list as I left, but with some determination to improve my praxis in a few ways: Make more time […]

Everything seems alright. If your Markdown plugin stops working and you’ve just switched to PHP5 and MySQL5, try upgrading… kind of obvious…

Thanks to various people who let me know that my blog went odd over the Xmas holidays. Our server shifted to PHP5 and it seems to have left one of my Wordpress plugins in poor shape. It’s deactivated while I source an upgrade and find a few minutes out of unpacking from our roadtrip to […]