Tag: things

• The art of finding the mind’s construction in the face

  During Covid, I found that I sometimes had the most interesting conversations when I didn’t mean to. Most people hear, but fewer listen unless you make eye contact with them; this was often difficult when I was standing in those little socially distanced footsteps painted on the floor of the grocery store checkout lines and…

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  July 5, 2023

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  backs, conversations, Douglas Harding, faces, masks, meditation, Mind, On Having No Head, pandemic, philosophy, social distancing, things, true nature, Zen

• A sorry sight?

  I am fascinated by liminality, intrigued by areas that exist on the edge of things, or in the space between them. I’m not sure when it all started, or why it has had such a hold on my imagination -but there you have it. Not everything has an owner, or for that matter even a…

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  January 19, 2022

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  boundaries, collectivism, edges, Gunter Nitschke, Haiku, Kyoto Journal, liminality, ma, Matsuo Basho, philosophy, spaces, things

• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

  If I’m brutally honest with myself, I suspect I side with Goldilocks in her preference for the just-right-baby-bear stance: not too hard, not too soft. I have always been more comfortable in the middle of the Bell Curve with lots of wiggle room on either side; I’m not really cut out to be an extremist.…

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  December 11, 2019

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  consumer goods, Edmund de Waal, Elisabeth Vrba, exaptation, Global Footprint Network, Goldilocks, hedonic treadmill, Livescience, Mark Twain, Michael Eysenck, Nick Thorpe, planned obsolescence, Professor David MacKay, Remade in Edinburgh, Stephen Jay Gould, things, UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, Wynne Parry