Of Monks, Mountains, … and Elephants…
This is likely my final posting from Kamalaya… This posting arrives on my departing day from Kamalaya, and has emerged during my meditations and contemplations, both within the centuries-old monks’ meditation cave, and on top of it. There are three stone...
Getting through to God without a Smartphone, Part II
The Hermit’s progress I am writing from Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary on Ko Samui. In my previous posting, I was sharing that the modern-day retreatant can expect a level of nurturing and pampering that truly answers his or her chants, incantations, and prayers, to...
Getting through to God without a Smartphone, Part I
Imagine yourself as a modern-day hermit … In a world where there is an earnestness to our conversations, we are scrambling to keep up. Our conversations are running. Our pacing is fast. The televisual tribe of modern newsreaders is now only a beat or two...
Sky High Talking on This and That (Part II)
Bangkok, the Beanstalk, and Breakfast continued… Still in Bangkok and still eating breakfast in the architectural beanstalk. This is a long breakfast. You may remember from yesterday, that I am in conversation with a Malaysian man in his late twenties, while...
Sky High Talking … on This and That (Part I)
We take for granted the trust and courage such construction projects muster in their creators. As I look up and up and up, I am considering the very notion of buildings that compete to commune with the sky.
The Trance film, II: Other ‘messings with your Mind’!
So let’s begin to talk about Mind Messing… Do you watch TV? Do your family and friends call you a couch potato? If the answer is a resounding ‘yes’, then be warned, you are ‘in danger’ of having your mind messed with! When you watch...
The Trance film, I: wake up and realise Boyle is messing with your mind (I)
Were you thinking what I am thinking? I wrote a few days ago, of how curious I was about how someone of my profession may be portrayed in the now released film, Trance, directed by the nation’s Olympian hero Danny Boyle. You may recall that I already had my...
David Bowie … is. Beyond Words … at the V&A
Are we losing the power to write? We are losing the wish and the will to write in the Twenty-First Century. I refer to the art of handwriting. Handwriting words requires a degree of connection with our emotions … when we move … when we move our pen … in times past...