Steps, Steeples, Stupas #1
The steps are everywhere, they are the way home! These notes in three stanzas are linked by the more than the pallidrom of s’s! They are held together by journeys of change, hope and devotion. Read More …
A Day’s Work
Backed up against the painting of workers by Huang Hue at the River Gallery in Yangon we paused to consider their contribution here, their contribution at home, their way of shaping the world. The sledge Read More …
Sunset and Gathering into Barns
The greater light refracted by the evening mist and smog backlights the outline of the new barn. Barns have not been raised like this for generations. The last real barn raising was in another century. Read More …
Green and Greener
The morning light breaks through the early fall mist and the gardens, a spectrum of verdant colours outlined by rows of vegetables. Between the branches a field of much more than dreams. There a sunflower Read More …
Cosmogony and Cosmology
There is a subtle difference between the perspective we might have on how we came to believe what we do (How we established the beliefs and values we have. Cosmogony) and the subtelty of the Read More …
Change and the Old Guard
Changes in architectural styles and tastes may occur in 20 and 50 year swings. Sometimes in 5 years. Other changes such as the guard at Buckingham Palace might have been around as ritual for 500 Read More …
Packaging, Presentation and Preservation
From the monkey to the lemming trail of mythological creatures the roof lines on older palaces are adorned to ward off evil and designate rank and status. The king lives here. The queen serves here. Read More …
Tides, Temples and Tables
A short commute from what we’ve called home for the past few weeks there is a sacred Hindu temple. Several of the persons I’ve met live in the town that surrounds the temple at Tanahlot. Read More …
Regression Therapy Comes to Paradise
The increased access to childhood memory may on the surface be absent, however the regression to child-like behaviours and the avocation with childhood play times and things are clearly the marks of underlying issues. Now Read More …
Yoga and Rice Fields in Paradise
The white figures on a white background are like a presentation from a wedding planner. This store was designed to make and take money. Now none of this would matter except that this store and Read More …