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Who is the real Zo Boone? A new Koan is born

This is my final post in the A to Z Challenge for 2012…a few days late, but better late than never. Zo Boone is one of the POV character’s in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. She is the...

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A to Z Challenge – a retrospective

I have had my blog for over three years and have posted iregularly whenever I was inspired by something I’ve read, seen, heard, or thought but taking on the A to Z April Challenge meant writing 26...

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What defines an “Intelligent” species?

I’ve always struggled with how to classify a species as intelligent or not. It must be simple and applicable across any expected type of life, not just the ones we have so far encountered on earth. I...

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What would Takuan Soho tell Mark Cavendish?

A letter by Takuan Soho(1573-1645) to Mark Cavendish, pro tour cyclist, winner 15 Tour de France stages Although you see the rider that moves to pass you, if your mind is not detained by him and you...

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How can a westerner come to understand Seppuku?

If there is one part of Japanese culture that alludes most westerners it is ritual suicide by disembowelment known as seppuku, or “Hara-kiri” as it is better known outside Japan. Seppuku became an...

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What might have been?

So much of the landscape of the Australian bush stinks of what might have been, even some areas quite close to major cities. It’s like we lost the fight against a harsh unforgiving environment, and an...

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Why do we yearn to create stories?

It cannot escapes except through new stories we must create, that we must write

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