Arguably the best photo I’ve ever taken using my phone of an ominous stranger on horseback approaching lazy cattle on a chalk hilltop beneath an irascible sky.
The great Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915.
“The poets and sages have, indeed, been saying for centuries that success in this world is vanity. “The worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns ashes”… The world, they are saying, is a mirage. Everything is forever falling apart and there’s no way of fixing it, and the more strenuous…
Four years on and much of the reaction from the days after January 6 still rings true.