The young, the old
Chasing shadows
Uphill, on hands and knees
Steep meadow
Soft grass
The game is on

I started writing a diary, on a journal that accommodates four years worth of daily memory keeping; on each page is a date, with four sections, one for each year. I’ve been jotting down what I did that day.

“Dear diary, 19th August 2010. Drove home after 12 hour day with the little man. Used miles […]

A 10 year old girl I know has been acting glum recently, I asked her why and she looked away. I’ve talked with others who know her, and it seems the problem is her amount of homework, and the pressures associated with “doing well”.
Besides school, she takes four different lessons; math, swimming, piano, and a […]

Imagine the happiest moment in your life. Try to exaggerate that happiness until you can feel yourself expanded like a balloon, tears streaming, and you see fuzzy radiance all around, and feel swathed in a blanket of formidable unconditional love.
Now, take this happy self to a beach, where you encounter a large group of other […]

Last Friday I sobbed relentlessly on Paul’s sister’s shoulder. Something came over me as I stepped into her home with other visiting relatives. They all had an orange hue about them. In sudden realization I dropped my proud, fearful and biased guarding armour. For the first time I saw what I was missing. All along […]

Henrik Ibsen wrote a long poem (later made into a play), called Peer Gynt, in the late 1800’s. The story is about a Norwegian man, Peer, going about his shallow life and eventually face death.
There’s real neat analogy in this story, not sure if Ibsen made it up himself, or if it’s from a Norwegian […]

Google launched real time search, where information uploaded seconds ago is matched and brought up in search results. Read more here.  It’s also launched Google Goggles, where instead of typing in key words, you can use a picture to find what you’re looking for. What fascinates me, more than the expansion of possibilities (like solving crime, […]

The boy next door just turned 9. “Do you feel any different?” I asked. “Yeah!” he shouted.
“Every year is better than the last” he said with his uniquely clear articulation, heavy on the “r”.
“Sometimes a lot better, and sometimes a little better. But better”.
“In fact”, he paused, “every Day is better than the last […]

Quote from the Book of Tea
“Art is being in the world, for it deals with the present - ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from to-morrow. The Present is the moving Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity seeks Adjustment; Adjustment is Art. The art of life […]

I’d forgotten I’d brought it from Japan a while back. Flipping through the pages, I remember now, I crash-landed my emotional roller coaster in the summer of 2000.
Some excerpts:
“I just rang a paranormal analyst in demand for an explanation of the whirlpool I’m in, but she seemed tired at the other end of the phone, […]