“We turn clay to make a vase; but it is in the spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vase depends. Just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.” - Lao Tzu

“Do I dare disturb the universe?” - T.S. Eliot - Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Relaxing on top of penygadir.

“The clock is king.”

I am trying to figure out how we, as individuals, benefit when a government cuts valuable programs that serve children, education, and the old and at the same time raises taxes.  Short term pain?  Long term gain?  What is the long term gain and how READ MORE

The contemporary commuting couple.

(nice tans, must have just come back from holiday.)

The new coalition government is proposing to cut child benefit, the child and working tax credit, statutory maternity pay, the winter fuel allowance, and concessionary bus fare, yet the new governments seems happy to continue having the taxpayers pay for NHS executives to keep their READ MORE

He’s not a policeman. He’s not a fireman. He’s not an emergency medic. It’s 6:00am. There is no traffic. The light I’m waiting for turns green. He runs his red light. I have to break to keep from crashing into him. He put two lives READ MORE

Looks like ripped out testicles to me…

without fear infamy, i will answer thee (a day out at the london dungeon)

Does anybody know the answer to this Zen riddle: a Zen Master comes around to his pupils, he is carrying a big stick. He says to them: ‘If you say I am holding this stick I will hit you with it and if you do READ MORE

“Some times we don’t ask a question because we are afraid of the answer we might get. Like Schrodinger’s Cat, the answer I want still exist as long as I don’t ask the question.”

back in the digital lab…

Wisdom, she just might tear you apart if you are an inattentive lover.

a singing dinosaur and cat fightin women in bikinis or how to make a video go viral…

The key to the universe is hidden in the underlying rhythm of life, in and out, burst, birth and rebirth.  Everything else is a side show.