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Happy New Year … at last In spite of all the promises I stayed away from the computer for the whole of the festive season. There are times when it is important to have a break from the gadgets! Three things preoccupied me over the festive season: Music – I listened to a fantastic range … Read more
I just found out today that M Scott Peck died at the end of September. He was 69. There is a full obituary in the Telegraph, a UK paper, which ends rather grudglingly and rudely in my view. Scott Peck wrote some fantastic books – to comment on his inability to write great songs seems … Read more
I went to our local Borders last weekend for a couple of hours. This should have been fun – books, CDs and Starbucks. Unfortunately each time I go to this store it becomes more and more popular. Why do car park designers have no idea how to design them in ways that avoid gridlock. I … Read more
I am a few pages from the end of “Small is beautiful” by EF Schumacher. This is the first time I have read a book about Economics since I was at school. Although it is actually about a lot more than just Economics. It was written over 30 years ago, and yet its preoccupations with … Read more
Sometimes life just gets in the sights, and the time for communicating beyond the face to face shrinks away so that there is nothing left. No blogging for a couple of weeks now. I read in many places that bloggers shouldn’t apologise for not blogging. It’s like starting a speech with “unaccustomed as I am … Read more
Four-Fold Way I was pointed to this site from Dave Pollard’s blog (How to save the world – see the list of sites to the right). Angeles Arrien has developed the Four-Fold Way. It sets out four ways – the way of the warrior, the way of the healer, the way of the teacher and … Read more
Treasures in full: Shakespeare’s plays, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Gutenberg’s Bible This is well worth a visit. I have to confess to being a bit of a library geek. I love looking at books. When I was a student (many years ago!) I used to spend hours in the special collection in the University Library looking … Read more
One of the key things about Gurdjieff (I posted about him a couple of days ago, here) is that at the core of his writings is esoteric knowledge. Is it any wonder then, that I should be sitting at breakfast the next morning reading, and came across an interesting fact? I was browsing through an … Read more
I have been interested in the work of G I Gurdjieff for a few years now. I first came across the name when reading the biography of Robert Fripp written by Eric Tamm (available for free download here – well worth reading). I then discovered that Keith Jarrett was also heavily influenced by Gurjieff’s work. … Read more
I’ve been reading Bob Dylan’s first volume of autobiography recently. I have just a few pages to go. Dylan is an artist who I have better understood as I got older. I remember first hearing so many songs that I thought were preferable as cover versions by other people – ‘All Along the Watchtower’ by … Read more