Pause for Reflection…

Indulge me if you will, whilst I tell you about what turned out to be the last time that I would practice the Buddhist walking meditation… I can’t recall the exact date, but I do remember the location and that it was a dreary grey sort of day and I was rather nonplussed by that as […]

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An Old Barmaid Spills…

The cocktail of life is a curious thing… How do you make that perfect blend, to please your taste just so… Sure… many of the key ingredients will often be the same but the quantities will vary… I mean… life’s gonna get dull pretty quick if you drink the same stuff from the same glass, […]

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Unfinished business…

Today, Lyn Thurman posed an interesting question… Death, or at least little deaths, happen continuously.  The world is in a constant state of movement, going from beginnings to endings in the cycle of life. Write about unfinished business you have.  Is it time you buried it or resurrected it?   See… that’s interesting for me […]

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Upside down or downside up?

He’s a funny old sort… The Hanged Man… He comes in many guises… I guess it all depends  on which way you choose to look at him… Yeah… he’s upside down with his view of things and sometimes he’s not upright in more ways than one… But to try and shift his view and insist […]

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Oh Wheely?

  I’ve got a bit of a jaded view of the Wheel of Fortune… I spent 12 years working in a Casino and watching the wheel watchers who took meticulous notes…convinced that they could crack the system, break the bank, and walk away a winner… Looking for order in a random universe of mathematical probability […]

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Weathering the storm…

As a child, I used to hang out a lot with the Hermit… He was a safe haven from the storms of life that swirled around… A quite escape from the screaming and shouting… A blanket of blankness with which to wrap my small head when faced with the questions … Who do you want to […]

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