I first found this website a couple of years ago. Another look today, and I see that it is still thriving. So many websites are ephemeral – they come and go. But ones like the Global Children’s Art Gallery deserve to persist as the web grows and evolves. Put simply, the site is a collection … Read more
[To read the other parts of this series on Buddhism, click here.] It was in my middle teenage years that I first became interested in Buddhism. I had grown up in a traditionally Christian family. My parents were both regular attenders of the village church. My older brother and I were both in the choir, … Read more
We went to the Tate Gallery in Liverpool at the weekend. Liverpool’s preparations to become European City of Culture next year are going well. There are new buildings appearing all over the city centre, and the roads are slowly improving as a result of much road digging and disruption. There were two fabulous exhibitions which … Read more
Last weekend I bought the second album by Editors, a band from Birmingham in the UK. It is a really accomplished piece of work. I always wonder how bands manage to pull together their second album when they are busy touring and promoting the first one. I guess this problem gets more acute by the … Read more
In a recent post, Rik Roots talks about self-publishing using a print-on-demand service called Lulu. This is a really interesting approach to producing perfect-bound books without having a heap of them sitting about on a shelf. Rik points out that he has a specific need to publish so that he can share his work with … Read more
I first wrote about the Global Ideas Bank on my old blog called ‘Things I found’ back in 2004. It’s great to revisit some of these things and still find the energy there. This blog, not a high frequency one, has great links to places like NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) … Read more
I have begun to write a series of posts for this blog about my interest in Buddhism. The posts will cover my early experiences of religion and spirituality growing up in the 60s and 70s through to my growing interest in recent years. I will look at Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism – describing my … Read more
Welcome to The World Cafe A couple of years ago, I took part in a knowledge cafe, run by David Gurteen. I wrote about it on my now deceased blog called ‘Things I found’. The technique, which is openly available in a truly open source way, is a brilliant way to get true participation. I … Read more
After a long poetic silence, words are beginning to appear in my head again. Some new poetry fragments – towards a 2007 sequence… (1) The sound of the helicopter blades reminded me thatThe first time I had stood on this rocky outcrop I hadWondered what I was doing nextThen the pieces of the jigsaw all … Read more
ETWiki Home – ETWiki Elephant Talk was a regular newsletter for some 15 years which updated the fan / fanatic about the activities of King Crimson, all of its members through the years and their own solo activities. It took the form of a discussion list, so there were many diverse views in each edition. … Read more