Notional Boundaries

Actually, I do have a superpower but nobody believes me. I can see string. I see invisible strings attached to people and attached to emotions and wrapped around circumstances. Ever […]

Sometimes I feel like a bull who dozed off in a summer meadow and when I woke up some bastard had built a china shop around me. I mean, really. […]

Meditation of the week: What is the difference between a leap of faith and a jump for joy?

A friend of mine was telling how, a few years ago, he was having a drink in a gastropub with a friend when she suddenly told him that he had […]

Much is made of empathy – the ability to understand what another is experiencing. Yet, good torturers have empathy. They know exactly what their victims are going through. Much is […]

So when I was young I went on my personal pilgrimage to all the religions I could get my hands on. I love the human experience of the divine. Elephant […]

Underneath the circus of my outer me is a contemplative man. Actually, more than contemplative I’m chatty with God. I have always felt God’s presence. Sometimes near, sometimes far, sometimes […]

Every morning the Sun jumps up to light us and to delight us.   And when the night falls the Moon moves us to reflect our daily oceans.   In […]