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Kay Ryan is an erstwhile America Poet Laureate and a Pulitzer Prize winner. But what is so delicious about her poem are the mordent...

This long poem by the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens is one of my favourites. He was an interesting fellow. High-ranking...

One of the MIndsprings members asked a very pertinent question today about starting out on her meditation journey: Where am I going to do...

Alistair takes time to listen to James Macmillan's dazzling 5th Symphony, Le Grand Inconnu, and feels the Holy Spirit fluttering.

A trip to A favourite London bookshop unearths one of the great poets I’d never heard of.

I must have started and re-started To the Lighthouse three or four times in my life. I’ve always thought that I should love this book....

Just watched mesmerising film by Jennifer Peedom, simply entitled River. in the tradition of Koyaanasqatsi and Baraka it is mostly images...

Sometimes when Daniel goes away, it's a chance for me to do nothing very much. When he's here we hang out or I have to carve time to do...

The final blog in my series of seven from 2013 is perhaps the juiciest of them all. I was all tender from a very intense, heart-breaking...

This is a rather epic blog about the future and the nature of stress. Looking back from the vantage of 2022, I can see how the eight...

The sixth of the blogs from 2014. This one is quite self-contained and doesn’t require many annotations from 2022. There is a Nibbana...

This is the third of the set of seven blogs I wrote back in 2014 following a chance encounter with one of my Buddhist teachers Ajahn...

Continuing my excavation of blogs from the past. These are my ponderings following a teaching that Ajahn Sucitto gave in Portugal. If you...

Today is the birthday of one of my early Buddhist teachers, Ajahn Sucitto, who was the abbot of Cittaviveka monastery in East Sussex when...

“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” Soren Kierkegaard This is a very old book review from...

This is an article I wrote almost 10 years ago but it still seems to hit the right note. COMING OUT IS GOOD FOR YOU. This article was...

On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, I was thinking about how we relate to those events – both at the time...

This is a transcript from a Mindsprings Practice Space session. I’ve got a great question from one of our community, who submitted it in...

Another scoop from the archives. Funnily enough, I may have changed my mind from the rather Puritan stance voiced in this blog in the...