If, according to Teilhard de Chardin, love is the “most universal, the most
tremendous, the most mysterious of the cosmic forces”, why on earth is it so difficult?
Throughout the ages poets and mystics, spiritual leaders and philosophers have sought to understand love and see how it connects to human freedom, peace, joy, suffering, [...]

On a day when the world’s media is consumed with the unintended decapitation, rather than the “civilized” hanging of a former tyrant, perhaps Carl Sagan’s words put a few things in perspective.
Of the “pale blue dot” reproduced at Futility Closet (link below), he said
That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you [...]

I was so preoccupied with getting my appreciation of Jim Greeley online (see previous entry), I forgot to link to Morag Prunty’s beautiful trubute in The Sunday Tribune. I don’t have permission to reproduce it here, but if you are one of Jim’s family or his legion of friends, you might think it worth [...]

Jim in mid-Seventies, courtesy Paddy Doyle

Perhaps the best legacy of all is laughter. When Jim Greeley died suddenly, having just turned 53, his partner, his family and huge circle of friends were devastated. Yet when they came together to console each other, within minutes, memories of Jim released serial, healing [...]

I hope you all had a happy Christmas and New Year’s Eve and I wish you all, especially friends and family, a wonderful 2007.
To all friends and family who might have expected to hear from me over the weekend, I’ve been caught in the grip of tech-hypnosis. I’m wrecked.
Before embarking on [...]