Oh, hi. Hello. Nice to see you here today. I’m happy — and flattered — you’ve stopped by. You look curious. Have a drink, it’s hot — it’s important to stay hydrated. We’ll be leaving soon, but before I invite you to this short and sunny walk down the somewhat…

and the silence they shine through — in an excerpt from a BT commercial, later incorporated by David Gilmour in Pink Floyd’s Keep Talking, Stephen Hawking, no longer with us in his physical from, is nevertheless still speaking to us across the time-space continuum through his voice synthesiser: For millions of years mankind lived just like the…

otherwise suffocation is on its way — change the English word for the desired, and the most dreaded, feature of existence comes from the Latin root cambiare meaning “exchange, barter”. there is a cycle, bilaterality and mutuality inscribed in it. change is. not good or bad, simply is. …

divided we fall… —

You know I’ve waited for so long…’ — as a kid, i was one of those picked last to the school football team. i wasn’t strong or determined enough to help paving the way to victory. among friends, after school — it was a different kind of play, but school wasn’t necessarily a tribe of friends. not always…

Which way to go, windowsill…’ — music is a woman. the voice is the exhale, the expenditure, the return to the natural state dictated by the atmospheric pressure and the tension of the diaphragm. the resources gathered by the inhale are needed, fundamentally, but there’s no music if the in-breath is held on to. there’s no…

the sun, the moon, the day and the night… “A monk asked Yaoshan what he thought about when he sat so still and quiet. Yaoshan said, ‘I think not-thinking.’ ‘How do you think not-thinking?’ the monk asked. ‘By nonthinking,’ Yaoshan answered.” there, in this nonthinking, your mind is a clear…

was it heather or wheat or rice or humans? we like to see ourselves — having, moreover, the conviction validated by holy scriptures, and who am i to disobey the gods, especially if they wield weapons to eradicate doubt? — as masters of the reality we occupy and shape to…

because i’m worth it, she said… am i not? — ‘i create jobs’ — said once a man i know, as a response to sheer disbelief that overtook my face as i had just witnessed him dropping his litter on the ground, with a bin in sight, all without missing a beat. ‘it’s good for the economy’ — said a…