“Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life. (What are the two?) There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable. Avoiding […]
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in” – Robert Frost Away, with words. An away day is a very singular experience. Fanatics, diehards and extremists peel out from the fabric of society and make their way inexorably to a football stadium hundreds of […]
“Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too […]