The Idea-smithy

I am in Thailand this week. I don’t think I know any bloggers here, but if I’m wrong, please feel free to correct me and get in touch! Do I sound unusually clipped and formal? Perhaps its because I’m spending this entire week away from my safe world of family and friends and only in [...]

Where we are similar, we are nearly identical
We can tell what the other is going to say, beforehand
and yet, monotony seems light-years away
Because where we are different,
We are poles apart
Love was once like a gigantic wave of mercury sweeping over me
And painting me silver so all I was, was a reflection
Now it brushes by me, [...]

I found this inside a temple on a mountain.

The road to heaven is paved with boisterous merry-making…and err…bad spelling.

I was talking today about astrology, religion and mathematics. Is that an odd combination? Its not….in the days of old, mathematicians, astronomers, philosophers, scientists, ‘men of god’ and artists were all called thinkers. Its about thought…pushing the boundaries of what we know and what we believe.
The question is what does one believe in? Human beings [...]