“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
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2025
What a world. Went to bed last night having watched a tiny, frightened, weak and cowardly bully throw a tantrum with his fingers in his...
Everything is always it.
So far still all in the bed, for now…
Got a fridge full of perfectly decent food but there’s a really good local pop up pizza van just turned up down the road… what...
Went to a new meditation session this evening at the local yoga centre. Really good. Non-prescriptive, gentle guidance in a beautiful setting and well attended....
““Memory is a liar. It's a heap of dog-eared, smudged, incessantly revised fictions.”” — Peter Schjeldahl
Another glorious day. That is all.
““Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”” — Joan Didion
OK, so tonight she’s missed her bed completely and ended up with her head under a chair 🤷♂️
““* is the most important thing you can do, so don’t take it so seriously.””
Just starting to plot/ plan my wife’s 60th birthday celebrations in August. 1. Steal my wife’s contacts ✅ 2. Start secretly conspiring with all her...
There is definitely a lack of humour in meditative/ contemplative/ so-called spiritual discourse. Zen well understands the value of humour and playfulness when trying to...
We now live in uncertain times. We have agents of chaos at the helm and we must make the best of it we can. To...
To walk is to contemplate.
We no more think our thoughts than we beat our hearts or digest our food. Thought is automatic, spontaneous and just as essential as all...
It’s a beautiful day out there. A walk across the fields in the sunshine for coffee seems like a good idea.
We don’t half make a fuss given the fact that we don’t actually experience our own death.
Do blog URLs matter?
I don’t know. It just crossed my mind when signing up for this Scribbles blog. Unlike, for instance, micro.blog where your default blog URL is...
Nothing has any more or less meaning than anything else. Everything is its own meaning in of itself, as it is.