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Twenty years

Twenty years today since the blog was created… this thing has come to matter to me. Glad it’s around, now through a new service. I shall attempt to write more often in the coming months. No AI whatsoever, it’s not welcome on my territory. In the meantime: thank you for reading.
Yet another rebirth

In September 2025 – now more than six months ago – Typepad shut down its business with a month’s warning. I had been using them for this blog for a long time…. I suppose it was silly to expect any more notice, or help, from a dying tech company, especially one that had been an…
Dark pasts

A couple of weeks ago – Saturday – D. and I went to see Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell. Based on books by Patrick Hamilton, who wrote a lot about being down and out and drunk in London in the 1930s (and died in his fifties, predictably of deterioration after a life of drinking), it’s…
Sea, sea

Reading David Hinton’s Existence, which is, among other things, Hinton looking at a Chinese painting that leads him into the world of Chinese thinking – that thinking which developed across Taoism, Zen Buddhism, etc. He speaks for a while of mountains, and the Chinese sense that the awareness of existence, emptiness, and a lot of…
The Book of the Sun

[How is it that I never posted this? It’s a personal favorite of mine, from 1992 shortly before I moved from LA to SF for what I thought was my last move. A. was talking about his dreams today and I thought of it.] My room grows larger, and daily there is less in it,…
Zürich in winter: 2025

Monday The first night in Zürich. The flight wasn’t bad; was thinking about small things going wrong while traveling, after reading someone who claims that such things are ruinous but one forgets them. I don’t really agree: for some people, at some times, yes, but… And, finally in my hotel room, I break a glass…