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Our Darkest Hour (David Weissman’s We Were Here
Went with a small posse of brothers to the THT screening of We Were Here, a new documentary film by David Weissman, the guy who made that...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Paralympia: "there is no such thing as a run-of-the-mill human"
I thought nothing could surpass the sunny uplift of the Olympics but I was wrong. When the Olympic Games finished (with that...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
the isle is full of noyses, Sounds, and sweet aires, that give delight and hurt not… When I wa
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Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
TRAVEL WRITING: Holy Island, Scotland
Holy island, where the devil is it? Right up until I was at Kings Cross Station I was convinced it was off the coast of Northumberland...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20199 min read
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
die stunde da wir nichts voneinander wussten
The American poet Charles Simic writes about the artist Joseph Cornell (of strange items in boxes fame): There are really three kinds of...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
Interview with Silvia Polivoy, at Sukhavati Retreat in Bahia, October 2006
In October 2006, Alistair Appleton interviewed SILVIA POLIVOY about her work with ayahuasca, some of the thinking behind the Ayahuasca...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 201912 min read
seed party: the feast of roman candlemas
I’ve always grumbled about my birthday being in February. It always struck me as a gloomy, wet time to be celebrating. How much better to...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
AN ARCH WHERETHROUGH / GLEAMS THAT UNTRAVELLED WORLD
It’s exactly a week since I arrived home in London from Brazil. I was over there for 3 weeks to have another bash at Ayahuasca. After my...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 201912 min read
Tidemills, Newhaven: Puffball
Most mornings when I can I take the dogs down to the sea. A favourite run is along the beach at Tidemills to the east of Newhaven...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
Carl Sagan
“From an intergalactic vantage point we would see, strewn like sea froth on the waves of space, innumerable faint, wispy tendrils of...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Mindfulness: “knowing what is happening, while it is happening, without preference”
In lieu of any blogging these last few weeks, I offer a few photo offerings. I was up on Holy Island teaching and studying with the...
Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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