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Went with Sara to a concert at Kings Place where amongst others, we heard this amazing piece by Tom Adès, atomising Couperin into sticky...

I can remember the times I’ve not been able to sleep on one open hand. Usually I can sleep anywhere – planes, trains, sitting up, lying...

I don’t usually write about political things on here although as the years pass I find myself moving to a more radical and left-wing view...

So in love with the Island . I landed there one June to do a tai chi course and was so bowled over by serenity and happiness of the Monks...

I’m just back from a filming trip to Mexico and as well as having an unseasonal tan, which I’m parading around town before it fades, I...

The Proms are in full swing. We’re half-way through and I’ve been doing the BBC2 ones scattered through August this year. Last night it...

©2002 Alistair Appleton. Please feel free to print off and read at home. First you have to ask yourself: “why meditate?” There’s no point...

The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the air. The anchor...

Went with Rachel to the Anish Kapoor show at the Royal Academy. It’s worth a pilgrimage and I use this word advisedly because there is...

Everything recently has been pointing me towards the joy of the home made, of the amateur. Professional and amateur: when you set those...

Up on Holy Island for the 3rd time this year. This time as a student. It’s wonderful being here without any organizational concerns....

George Monbiot makes an interesting statement in this morning’s Guardian. He points out that there is a myth: that the people at the top...

Pina Bausch died and I didn’t find out till a week later. Dancer: Julie Anne Stanzak. BŸhne von Peter Pabst UA Wuppertal 1982 No creator...

I first went there in 1994 when I was 24 and knotted. I’d just met Abraham, a handsome ballet dancer in Berlin with the biggest thighs...

Been reading more Alan Watts. No one I’ve read or listened to has more succintly and pithily summed up the core ideas of Buddhist Dharma...

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,...