World Without End

The only thing I know for sure about death is that it’s coming. I do not pick my way through life expecting much else. I learned early that death is the only real punctuation. It’s a good thing to keep in mind. It keeps the small stuff small; we can do no better than keep [...]

This may be the only time anybody tells you the truth about Burns Night, so pay attention. Though we appear to do this in a spirit of joy and bonhomie, that’s a carefully fostered illusion (clue: when was the last time you associated any of your Scottish pals with joy and bonhomie? Exactly.) We do [...]

Another video, the blogging equivalent of a supply teacher. Your normal host is still stumbling around in a numb fog. It’s amazing how much music seems to help. I managed to take my daughter out for some breakfast this morning and we talked about how she’s just emotionally wide open that way too – music, [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo

If I was going to blow something up I would be really, really disappointed if I didn’t get to see it. Seriously.

I’ve made a change to the text of Liminality, below. I was wrong to say that one had to enter a liminal state alone. There are of course some rites of passage – the aboriginal walkabout, for example – where the process must be undertaken alone. Equally, however, there are many situations in which groups [...]

Random flashing Holzer Truisms: Random site.
Beautiful images of what Jenny Holzer does with these truisms: Guggenheim
Write your own here: Please Change Beliefs
Here’s a great one that the Scotrail website coughed up when I tried to find train times this morning!

This is fascinating: http://www.christianhumanism.org/