elementary particles love nagarjuna

I have so many disconnected thoughts right now. One is that our path through life is just like that of a quantum particle – we subtly interact with the other versions of our self that ‘might have been’. Reading Nagarjuna i suddenly get an insight into emptiness as the space between things. but we are … Read more

Lorca, language, translation and a libation

Reading Lorca, and then reading about Lorca in Spanish Wikipedia, I think about the how the quiet poet becomes a rebel, not through any change in himself, but through his being an unchanging self while society around him changes.  (photo courtesy KlimBim) One thing I like about the Spanish Wikipedia apart from the intimacy of … Read more

Ngarigo and Ngunnawal word lists

I find it is impossible not to feel a huge sense of loss when seeing how fragmentary are the records of Aboriginal languages from South East Australia. Even today Aboriginal languages are still slipping away very rapidly. Why is this not seen as a cultural emergency? Why has the task always fallen on so few … Read more