I woke from a fragment of a dream this morning in which I was having soft soil spread over me like a cozy blanket. Fully awake the image seems strange. On the surface it could have been scary, like being buried alive. Yet, as the folksong, John Barleycorn, suggests, the same actions … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →The ability to change your mind is practically a super-power! My mother had a friend (named Victor Mariano Ricardo Alphonzo Ibarguan de Urbay), who was annoyed by the new discoveries in Parapsychology in the 60s that seemed to support the existence of psychic abilities. Since he was wealthy, he sponsored a study … Continue reading →
Almost anything works as an analogy for life: sports, gardening, weather… we tend to refer back to what we know. But although few of us actually know battle (thank goodness) it is a popular analogy, a popular motif. We admire the warriors, after all “Greater love has no man than to lay … Continue reading →