Almost Composed

Meditation and curiosity

The Tide Clock – free PDF

June 28, 2015

A PDF version of our poetry collection, The Tide Clock, is now available. Click here to read it. Feel free to share it with others. Blurb What do we find when the tide goes out and the coastline is exposed to light again, as if for the first time? In The Tide Clock, three poets […]

categories: poems

Thinking about nothing in particular

June 7, 2015

I’ve always been interested in the question, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ I remember walking to school trying to imagine nothing: no planets, stars, or galaxies. (I’d seen these in an astronomy book and was inconsolable when the same book told me that the sun would one day engulf Earth). All I could think of […]

categories: philosophy, reflections

Taking stock

May 22, 2015

Ask yourself “what is happening right now?”

categories: aphorisms, reflections

The Tide Clock proof has arrived

May 19, 2015

The new poetry pamphlet I’ve been working on with Hugh Greasley and Joe Franklin has arrived in proof form. There are a couple of minor errors to be fixed: I didn’t leave enough room between the bleed and the page margin on the cover, for one thing. These should now be resolved and I’ve put […]

categories: poems

Anatta, or ‘no self’

May 18, 2015

Here’s an exploration of the Buddhist view of anatta, commonly translated as ‘no self’ or ‘not self’. Although I’m not an authority on this, I’ve been thinking about what anatta might mean in comparison to our normal, conditioned view. Let’s suppose that View A is commonly held: View A: there is a conscious self, an “I”, who possesses a […]

categories: philosophy