What’s the Use of Poetry?

What’s the Use of Poetry?

by | Mar 21, 2022 | Sublime Words

Evidence ‘A great deal of anecdotal evidence suggests that we respond positively to birdsong.’– Scientific researcher quoted in The Daily Telegraph 8.2.2012 Centuries of English verseSuggest the selfsame thing:A negative response is rareWhen birds are heard...
Hedonic Adaptation: The Happiness Grinder

Hedonic Adaptation: The Happiness Grinder

by | Mar 15, 2022 | Sublime Mind

Listen, happiness is a slimy creature. It will slip between your fingers, no matter how tightly you make a fist.  You can build walls around it, but walls will eventually crack, and soon enough happiness will seep out, like water dripping from a faulty plumbline....
The Meaning of Our Bodies

The Meaning of Our Bodies

by | Mar 14, 2022 | Sublime Health

“How problematic to have both a body and a mind, for the former stands in almost monstrous contrast to the latter’s dignity and intelligence. Our bodies smell, ache, sag, pulse, throb, and age. They force us to fart and burp, and to abandon sensible plans to lie...
The Happy Buddha and his Happiness Mantra

The Happy Buddha and his Happiness Mantra

by | Sep 6, 2021 | Sublime Words

“The happy Buddha,mounted his yellow-red scooter,of wheels made of hope,a boot stashed with dreams,and headlight beaming sunshine. The happy Buddha,his jowls jiggling in mirth,his belly roiling with eternal bliss,went out on his yellow-red scooterto find a...