Rusty Ring

For some time now I've wanted to write The Big Book of Un-Preached Sermons , a disquisition on the Shadow Gospel: that body of Chris...

(Putting my meditation cushion to productive use.)

I always massage a broken heart with danger. Once, in college, I memorialised a girlfriend's abrupt adieu by riding my bike a hundred...

(To the best of my ability to determine, this is the European honey mushroom Armillaria cepistipes . In the late 90s, specimens collec...

Where there are humans you'll find flies and Buddhas Issa (Photograph of Musca domestica joining the picnic c...

( Geastrum saccatum ; a clearer explanation of the common name than I uploaded last autumn .)

In the late 40s, a British Colonial Service officer named John Main began to frequent a Malaysian ashram. There, in meditation, the d...