Dancing Cockatoos
DD60 - Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test Sometimes I read something that comes to me from ‘out of left field’. It’s an [...]
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07, 2025
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A View From the Bridge
To have an informative view of matters is often a function of perspective. Pierre Ryckmans was a man with an enviable sense of perspective, [...]
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03, 2025
DD65 – Remembering
The older one becomes, the more we tend to reminisce with friends about past events – both achievements and failures. Memory is tricky, in [...]
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10, 2024
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
It was nearly fifty years ago that Robert M Pirsig’s book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance appeared. I bought my copy a [...]
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03, 2024
Transitions
Transitions I first read about ‘rites de passage’ back in the 1960s. I was a student, enrolled in a social anthropology course, and Arnold [...]
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01, 2024
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02, 2023
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12, 2022
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