There’s a clock in the local post office and for as long as I know, the clock has displayed the same time: Wednesday, 16th April, 11.45 am. This year a tourist could walk in on 17th April and claim that the clock needs a reset but a local would still just smile and go about… Continue reading

Qi Gong frequently invites us to move like a river. But are we the water that follows the path of least resistance with ease and conviction? Are we the riverbed, whose movement is so minute that only time will show the signs of it? Or are we the life that moves into existence because of… Continue reading

I was contemplating Yin & Yang and how they are opposites that contain each other. And that therefore there truly is no duality, even if our education and society at large will make us believe otherwise.  A system as ancient as the Daoist path that describes everything and nothing at the same time, knowledge which… Continue reading

“I think I’ll start with the lemon”, she said, seemingly absent minded. “I’d go for the artichoke”, I replied.“What?”, Eliza gave me a puzzled look. She had clearly just returned from another dimension where not making sense was in the eye of the beholder.“Nothing”, I replied with a grin. “I was joking. What about the… Continue reading

I’m almost there. A few more tweaks and I’m in. This is very exciting and took longer than expected. But I suppose that’s what happens when you try and be technically savvy at my age. Generation X, I just learned, but that’s fine by me. I remember smoking in airplanes and travelling with nail scissors… Continue reading