17 Mar On Journeys Through the Australian States
Time passed writing about passing time in an airport coffee shop...
16 Mar The 108 Steps of Perfection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PycZtfns_U Karate, kata, perfect form and perfectionism in Japan At the age of seven, the result of an I don’t know from where interest in Japan, I began learning karate, lessons undertaken at my own insistence, my mother’s weary acquiescence. Perhaps she sensed that it would be...
02 Nov The Secret of Happiness
Still searching for the secret of happiness it seems...
21 Jul Poetic Realism: the film genre a director died to make
Posted at 13:23h in art, beauty, funny, life, meditation, movies, poetry by Le Chef Gateaux 0 Comments
More a tendency than a genre in its own right, Poetic Realism was a highly influential yet short-lived movement in French cinema of the 1930s, a brief outbreak of lyricism sandwiched between the bludgeoning horrors of two world wars. Unlike Soviet montage or French impressionism,...
22 Jun What Matter Age?
Posted at 01:01h in childhood, funny, inspiring, internet, life, literature, meditation, music, poetry, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 2 Comments
There’s a funny saying about things that go around coming around. Usually it’s karma, an eye for an eye and a sow for a reap—the great spiritual law of the universe that dictates bad things for things done badly, good for that done gladly. But inspiration...
19 Jun Six Childhood Facts
Posted at 23:20h in childhood, inspiring, japan, life, meditation, sri chinmoy by Le Chef Gateaux 11 Comments
Six facts about me as a child, with due respect to Pavitrata. 1. No fast fried pleasures, please I never spent my pocket money on junk food as a child. Which is not to say that I didn't like junk food, or to suggest merely a lack...
06 Jun Howard Jones: Best-selling Buddhist Pop Star
The musical beginnings of British popular artist, vegetarian, practising Buddhist and master of 1980‘s synthesiser-pop Howard Jones were auspicious, although he probably didn't recognise it at the time. A piano player and teacher from an early age, he was involved in a car accident which...