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Speaking of remote cultural parallels and serendipity
Oh, I’ve been around, thank you for wondering. Much time spent reading but I also have had little to say here. I think this little serendipitous find grants the opportunity to say something. I’ve been...
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Where the wild things are…
Well, talk about serendipity… I just found out, in a bit of news about a Maurice Sendak’s exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia that the museum houses a copy of the Yijing...
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On dreams, opposition and abundance. Oh, and Cher too…
A few years ago, seven or eight years, perhaps, I started having sleep problems. Not one to pop anything that requires a prescription unless I absolutely have to, I refused to seek that kind of help: I...
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Taming tigers
The other day I closed a circle, so to speak, when I watched an interview of Damien Echols on CBS Sunday Morning. The man was convicted–still is, actually–along with two other men, for the brutal...
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On Uncertainty and the Yijing
Just recently, a fellow Yixue student, the philosopher, musician and writer, Will Buckingham, wrote a very interesting article for Aeon Magazine, titled the “Uncertainty Machine”. Here are a few...
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On “Disaster”, Walking Staffs and the Yijing
Prologue I suppose there shouldn’t be a need for a prologue to a blog post; after all, this isn’t a book or an academic paper. Alas, I feel there is a need for it. Having dedicated more than 40 years...
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Divine! Divine! Open up a path! Or postal encounters of the third kind.
Shortly before my son returned home from his three years work term in Japan, he sent back a few boxes with clothes and books he accumulated over that period. He used Japan’s postal service for that...
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