Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Travelling

'To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.'

RL Stevenson

In everything, speed implies the need for immediacy. Immediacy implies an absence of the need to think.

Thursday, 22 April 2010

The heavens are telling

For nearly a week the sky was clear. Barely a cloud; plain blue. Not a sound except the wind. And then one white line; another and then another. The planes are flying again. The sky is scared with the traces of passing planes. And now, back to normal, more than birdsong fills the air.

Friday, 16 April 2010

A Left-handed Quote

'The trait grants those who possess it a tendency toward more flexible thinking, the psychological freedom to question orthodoxies, and the cognitive facility to update beliefs.'

Melissa Roth - The Left Stuff

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

The world is to be seen

'A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.'

Confucius.

(Shades of Mingus?)

Sunday, 11 April 2010