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

A blog piece refurbished from the archives. But no one tires of hearing about amazing teenagers and the vast sweep of the future that...

This is another blog fished out of the annals. I probably wrote it about 10 years ago. I have subsequently read Joyce’s magnum opus for...

That voice is all wrong, really. It’s not formal, it’s not ‘correct’ but it gushes and it’s unstoppable. It IS supersumptous. And that’s wh

The final two quatrains of W.H. Auden’s Fall of Rome have been circling in my mind during this extraordinary time in lockdown. Especially...

My friend Jane posted this from a shut-down Manhattan. It’s a quote from an elder of the Hopi Nation. And it sends shivers down my spine....

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody’s life really consists of small things. Greatness is a...

If you let go a little, you suffer a little less. If you let go a lot, then you suffer a lot less. If you let go completely, all...

SNOW The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and...

In the magical way of stumbling, I stumbled across the famous Zen writer Alan Watts. He was one of the first people to popularize Zen in...

The degree of love we manifest determines the degree of spaciousness and freedom we can bring to life’s events. Imagine taking a very...

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty,...

Heaney meets Joyce in a carpark, after a fast and pilgrimage to St. Patrick’s Purgatory in Lough Derg. The tall, older man on his...

Alan Watts’ smoke-kippered and throaty laugh: & the perfect translation of nirvana – which means ‘blowing out’ at Sanskrit root – is not...

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time. When the United States is a service and information economy;...

Wordsworth is a key figure in Reggie’s understanding of dharma. Strange that a 19th Century Cumbrian poet should feature so strongly in a...

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies all our growth...

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the...

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ALICE WALKER I’d love to know your thoughts about Alice Walker. Drop me a message with any...

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by. ELIZABETH BISHOP I’d love to know your...