Blog#95: Journey to the Sun
Part One
One summer in the late 1980s, I'm not sure which, I had time on my hands. I had finally managed to wriggle out of most of my official responsibilities at the Buddhist Centre, and I had nothing lined up as replacement. It was a cool, damp summer in London, and I took the opportunity to type up the text I had written . . .
Blog#94: A Jumble of Words
Not literature. Not poetry. No claims to artistic merit. Not anything. Just a jumble of words that came out, possibly attempting to communicate something or another. That's all.
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Fifty five. We thought we would always be fifty five.
A camp by the loch. Silent, aside from the rustle of plastic in the breeze, . . .
Blog#93: Evolve or Die
Part One
I am going to discuss and quote bits from Howdie Mickoski's book 'Falling for Truth'. Although some of the details vary, there are many approximations to my current state of affairs and of being.
It concerns a section where he discusses 'Losing the Human Form'; take that as you will. It's an expression . . .
Blog#92: Renaissance Soup
Part One
'Masterpieces of Renaissance Painting'; 'The Italian Renaissance'; 'The High Renaissance and Mannerism'; 'History of Italian Renaissance Art' (Frederick Hartt, 703 pages); 'The Flowering of the Renaissance'. All are lined up proudly on my bookshelf. All are interesting. Some have beautiful reproductions of . . .
Blog#91: Not Even a Perugino
Part One
A song plays on the 2024 equivalent of the juke box. It's the Doors. 'People Are Strange'. Tell me about it, Jim, tell me about it.
I'm sitting on a slightly hard seat in a cafe bar. This is Sassari, the second most populous place in Sardinia, and they go in for cafe bars big-time here. Restaurants are few and . . .
Blog#90 : What Was the Renaissance Really?
Part One
During most of the 1980s I was a fully paid-up member of the Italian Renaissance fan club. I loved it, especially the paintings. It sustained me during dark times, and provided untold inspiration when needed and while nothing else did.
It started with Botticelli, and then Michelangelo, before reaching its . . .
Video Time....
There are a few things that I might write about, but nothing at the moment. So here's a video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GreQSaCgLIc
The third of the four-part episodes called 'The Great Unknown' has just been released on Ickonic. This most recent one is especially significant for anybody who takes themselves seriously, and . . .
