The Art of Being Present & Alert
Reclaiming Awareness in a World of Distraction
Theme archive
Musings on Consciousness and Meaning
Consciousness, mind, spirituality, meaning, values, identity, and the inner life of human transformation.
The Weight of Witness
There’s a particular satisfaction in dispensing advice about other people’s sorrows.
The Art & Science of Anticipation
A Study in Expanded Consciousness
The Weight a Beach Cannot Hold
On the evening of 14 December 2025, an Islamic State–inspired gunman opened fire on roughly a thousand people gathered at Bondi Beach to light candles for Hanukkah.
Reality. What a Concept!
The Power of Our Consensual Frameworks
What Is Any Of This For?
The question civilisations can't ask themselves
The Bandwidth of Sorrow
On Exhaustion, Empire, and the Faint Light Still Coming Through
The Cassandra Tax
Accepting the Burden of Knowing Too Much
The Pause That Passes For Peace
Why Military Force is Never Sufficient
The Cost of an Unfiltered Woman
A friend of mine posted something on LinkedIn this morning that I could not put down.
A Life Without A Career
A temperament for openness and gratitude
Authentic Until Further Notice
How the attention economy converts sincerity into spectacle
Among the Forbidden Questions
Don't ask that. Don't say this. Don't touch that...
A View Of The Future From 1989
Improving Learning Systems in the Arts
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