Like An Illusion

No Terry, my old tutor, we Buddhists don't think that reality is an illusion . We think it is *like an illusion. Can you spot the differ...

Wordsworthian Matters

Cumbria is as extraordinary as when I leapt up and down the hills as a child for the first fifteen years of my life. My grandparents lived t...

Interview

I was just interviewed for the excellent Rice Magazine by the excellent Lynn Gosnell. As I'm the first in this endowed chair--thank you ...

Elemental My Dear Watson

My trip to Scotland just now has inspired my essay for Jeffrey Cohen's new book, another in his growing stable of thoroughbred eco books...

Castlerigg

It has been the most extraordinary Wordsworth Conference. Still here. Ten days. Cottage by a waterfall. Many many things to relate. Family s...

Do Be Polite

@Twitter needs to shape up . Wherever you go, there you are. Netiquette was in the past. Speech as the Buddhist call it, or style as the phe...

An Essay on Energy

I just finished an essay for Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger for a book of keywords on ecology and energy. My essay is called “Ecology.” It...