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Meditating on top of Mountains Just back from 10 days up on Holy Island, including 6 spent debuting as a meditation teacher. I’ve been to...

Berlin the Beautiful Just in Berlin to do some research for this documentary project about that city since 1989. Although I’d been there...

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...

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...

It’s almost too much. I’ve been back from Brazil for a fortnight. It’s been perhaps less than 4 weeks since I last drank – but it feels...

It’s weird stumbling across a cache of photos. It’s like opening a chamber in the head and letting an army of activity out. A boyfriend...

Belle & Sebastian Simon had free tickets, so we went to the B&S gig at the Astoria. Heard their first album in Berlin, years ago. But to...

Ulysses on British Rail Been wrapped up in a cyclone of work lately. My heart sank fathoms when I got my schedule for this summer. 25...

They’ve been hovering on my dance consciousness for years. ‘Oh yes, those all-male, all-female types with the tricksy names’. (You...

After a bit of technical head-scratching, I think the Mindsprings Podcast page is up and running. Hurrah! You can to subscribe through...

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

Benjamin Grosvenor is God In many ways the ungraspable fluidity of music – the fact that dwelling too long on one musical moment fatally...

The Cockettes More proof that BBC4 is a wild and wonderful treasure chest. Happened upon the start of this gorgeous hour-and-a-half long...

I was feeling a bit floaty and spaced after my therapy session and didn’t really want to go across town to Battersea but I’m glad I did....