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Month: March 2019

What fool bought that?

What I ought to have bought was a mobility cart and a year’s pass to the Bingo Hall. What I … More

BMW, Hypocrisy, Waste

Vierne: Messe Solennelle

Rarely have I felt such intensity as when singing Vierne’s Messe Solennelle with Fulham Camerata last Saturday.

Choral Music, Fulham Camerata, Messe Solennelle, Vierne

Peace at Last

Very occasionally one gets a glimpse of peace and today was one of those all too rare days.

Depression, Magic Mushrooms, Meditation, Mood, Peace, Psilocybin

There Comes a Time

I was contemplating meditation at  the Wat Buddhapadipa in London and revisiting the basics of Buddhism this morning,

Buddhism, Hermit, Materialism, Mendiant, Nirvana, Retirement, Taoism, Withdrawal

Processed for the Slaughterhouse.

In the featured image, Leni Riefenstahl and a camera crew stand in front of Hitler’s car during the 1934 rally … More

Airports, Dystopia, Hitler, Petty Clerks, The Banality of Evil, Totalitarianism

Born Again

I have always been faintly amused by the idea of earnest Christian converts sliding down a giant birth canal into … More

New Leaf, New Years Resolution, Pig, Siblings

Beautiful Place, Beautiful People?

No, it didn’t quite work out like that, it never does. However Arcadian the setting, we humans will wreck it … More

Arcadia, Behaviour, Other People

An Allegory of Man 1596

The painting warns the viewer of the soul’s vulnerability to the vanities of the world. It strikes me as a … More

Christian Morality, Comic Strip, Comics, Devils, Morality, Sin

William West, 1st Lord Delawarr

The somewhat brutal face and the arrogant pose of William West, 1st Lord Delawarr, reassures us that human nature has … More

Hans Holbein the Younger, Holbein, Portrait of a Gentleman, Tate Britain, Tate Gallery

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