Category: Journal
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The Illusion Paradox: Exploring the Thin Veneer of Truth in a World of Illusions
Out on our morning walk.Wow. Someone has gone to the trouble of stencilling this on their driveway. Perhaps they felt it would be useful reminder squinting out through their ice-scraped windshield as they back out into a freezing Canberra morning. In a world gone mad, it curves a half-smile across my sagging colon to think…
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Weighing in.
My morning gym visit. Today, chest and back.Bench press (on a machine), lateral pull downs, seated rows, a little abs and back1. Finishing up with some cardio and stretching. I recently turned 61 and I have been a regular gym goer since my early twenties. As I get older my reason for pushing weight up…
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Email poll
Just a quick poll with respect to my email subscribers.This post will be deleted in a couple of days. I am thinking of providing extra content for those of you subscribed to my email list. That content would probably be around topics of consciousness, climate change, near-death experience and meditation practice (these are the things…
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Another day, another abandoned building.
Out for a walk this morning I happened upon an old building in the centre of Canberra that looks like it is straight out of a Batman movie. A plaque on the wall identified it as “Department of climate change, energy, the environment and water” (as if these were 4 seperate things). In a stroke…
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Giving autumn and building benches
Chalk up yet another perfect Canberra morning in the Autumn that just keeps on giving. A morning walk by the lake. A wake of golden-red foliage. The RSPCA was running their ‘million paws walk’, and we turned up late to catch the stragglers and sleepers-in. Juno immediately slotted in for bit of pack weaving, butt…
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The school of forestry.
Location: ///shorts.finger.entry35°18.2301’S, 149°5.70282’E Out for a walk today and came upon this old heritage listed building. The grounds are being meticulously maintained. The building itself is neglected and deserted. Such a shame. This was the Australian Forestry School. Opened in 1927, the building originally comprised two lecture theatres, a library, teaching laboratory and museum. It…
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Morning walk, Mt Taylor.
Location: ///vibrated.sieved.demonstrated35°22.5105’S, 149°4.55454’E Morning calf pump up Mount Taylor1. Perhaps some advanced cardio training for the impending temple and noodle bar treks through Kyoto…. Or perhaps a slowly dawning realisation that the imprints I’m leaving on my couch now resemble organic post-middle-aged buttocks potatoes. I’ll run with the noodle bars. Anyway…denial, preparation, whatever. It was…
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Through it on two wheels.
An Autumn day like this demands a two-wheeled response. So I ride through it. One of those days that serves up unanticipated perfection. One of those days that leaves a pleasant inscription in your memory that you might try to recapture (by doing the same activities or going to the same place) but inevitably fail…
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Sydney is wet.
The rain is strong today. Caught the ferry into the CBD and soaked in it. Today’s mission: to capture a little light amidst the gloom….and a find a decent cinnamon cronut. Also, there will be bookshops. * Left my camera in the car, so all photos taken on my iPhone.
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