Category: Being human

In 2010, I picked my copy of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov from my bookshelf. I had made a few attempts at it, but with life’s interruptions, the eight hundred pages were daunting. I now felt guilty that I had not read a book that was influential to so many writers and readers. A quick read…

Kawaii (Japanese) Meaning; Cute Romantic. Whilst Sir Walter Scott took a trip to Stratford Upon Avon, Li, a Business Studies student at Glasgow University was having a road trip with friends to see The Glenfinnan Viaduct. That same year, Kioko, a middle-aged widow was on a flight from Tokyo to Canada. Her mother several years…

I had a dream. I saw the “wise” of the age crossing over the plains like a herd of wildebeests playing pipe tunes. I said to the young man at the rear, “Pray tell me child, where are you going?” “I am following the wise, they play a fine melody to my ears.” “And pray…

I believe it was John Gardner who said something like there being two plots to every story, Someone goes on a journey, and a stranger comes to town. Now let us see. Once upon a time, there was this bloke who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was travelling with…

With the lamp suppressed The universe enters in The child gapes with awe I suppose it must have been the late summer. I had been spending the month on the idyllic Island of Bute on Scotland’s west coast. We had a cabin with no running water or electricity. My job was to go and fill…