Five hour drive across the country tomorrow back to where we used to live. A few days catching up with old friends which we’re really...
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Practice is not immediately remedial or about making yourself feel better right now. It is simply seeing and recognising with clear honesty whatever is happening...
I accompanied my son as he drove to the optician’s to collect his new specs, which look good on him. Mowed the lawn and just...
A nice meditation group this evening. Glorious birdsong infused the sit throughout as the sun set. Meditation/ contemplation asks questions with no answers. Or perhaps...
Bit of an intense day today. Waaaay too much caffeine (even for me) too early did me in and I felt anxious and jittery for...
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” — William Hazlitt
The weather is as impressively dank and grey today as it was clear and bright yesterday but in no way less impactful for that. I...
Stunning walk with my wife into the wilderness today. Glorious sunshine pouring down onto a few walkers and wild horses, the only inhabitants of the...
The house is asleep apart from me and the dog. The church gate creeks across the lane. Cars hiss past the corner. The washing machine...
““If we can set aside the urge to declare what AI is—machine or mind, tool or threat—we may find ourselves better able to inquire into...
““Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it and no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.”” — John Cage
““We may prefer to do almost anything other than take in information that could save us.”” — Alain de Botton
Not a very auspicious start to my use/ involvement with Minutiae. I keep missing the notifications! I mean it kind of doesn't matter but I love...
At a certain point in meditative/ contemplative practice words and language become utterly redundant.
In the spirit of Minutiae, a random photo for the day…
Having been somewhat tentative and slow to engage with AI I have started to have a few conversations about my interest in the nature of...
““Seer and seen arise and set together.”” — John Troy Put another way, consciousness and phenomena are co-emergent.
Minutiae is a really interesting social photography project and app like nothing else I’ve ever come across. Hard to describe so I recommend just going...