I struggle to catch sight of the eternal. My faith is weak to aspire beyond myself. I seem to see the temple but no god within it. I discover the whole of creation, to the outermost limits of the universe, but no gate to let me through. What are all these stories of transcendent self [...]
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Chance is such a flighty and whimsical thing – or is it? Chance doesn’t exist at all except that our imagination furnishes it with laws and opportunities – or does it? Chance is a curse to the cursed and a boon to the blessed – or are curses and blessings merely fictions of the human [...]
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From one point of view dreams, symbols, imaginings – for example, poems or paintings – are figures, shape-shifted from our daily lives. A poem, then, might reshape a lost love affair; a painting, a phase in life. Psycho-analysis might justifiably point out the various sublimations taking place in our thoughts and images. Dreams are famous [...]
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Grey-lit sun, miles of sky; alone a small bird touches lips with the wind. Landar © landar 2011. All rights reserved
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I see that patch of blue through the mist in November and its quality is unattainable. Everything else dances attendance on it. The crooked, coiling branches of the oaks contain their dark dreaming – some leaves might fall if a gust of wind should summon itself from the centre of the earth. There are walls [...]
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This article – 9 11 facts – was written on the 10th anniversary of September 11 2001. It considers the September 11 facts from a very different point of view. The full 9 11 truth may never be known. But I believe that what happened on September 11 ten years ago can be understood in [...]
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