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Thoughts from a window cleaner

December 2, 2019 0 Nicolas

Or How to Boost productivity, enjoy life, and become a man Popular wisdom says embrace the unknown, brave challenges, fear nothing. Easily said and – like rolling a boulder uphill – done. Before window cleaning, my struggles and successes had…

Movie Reviews

True Magic in Pan’s Labyrinth

October 15, 2018 0 Nicolas

True Magic in Pan’s Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro weaves us a tale rich in myth and archetypes, the kind we loved as children and forgot. At the same time, Pan’s Labyrinth is gorgeous, forward-thinking cinema that undoes what we thought…

Insights for Life

A River in the Rainforest: How the Most Beautiful Moments Exist within the Mundane

April 24, 2018 0 Nicolas

Any experience can open up into something life-giving and gorgeous. Environments as unlike as day and night cross-pollinate. A stuffy airport queue recalls a river in the rainforest. Don’t fall for the appearances around you. Behind the veil, between the…

Espresso

Vesta Coffee Roasters – Las Vegas

April 3, 2018 0 Nicolas

Las Vegas emerges like a mirage in the desert, and even after several days there, I am still not convinced it’s real. The most clear evidence I have is the lingering taste of the espresso from Vesta Coffee Roasters in…

Insights for Life

Engage!

March 22, 2018 0 Nicolas

I was standing over a cliff in New South Wales, Australia, watching the sea pound at the rocks. I suddenly thought of the principle of engagement, like the water that gets into every crevice and relentlessly does its work. There is no…

Poems

Night Flight

November 12, 2017 0 Nicolas

As sweet shapes and shadows cool for night Across the silk sky, owls in flight Feel the winter beneath their wings Listen to ice as it snaps and sings. Such sailing creatures we love to be Or to stand and…

Espresso

Espresso Guidelines at The Jewel Cafe

January 19, 2017 0 Nicolas

Dear baristas of The Jewel Cafe, thank you for your dedication to the best possible coffee at The Oasis Centre. Thanks to Rogue Wave Coffee, we’re supplied with delicious beans, expertly and freshly roasted. Now it’s our job to render…

Poems

Dinosaurs

October 19, 2016 0 Nicolas

The early earth was shaken By mammoth footfall pounding dust, Before the plains were overtaken When we arrived upon the crust. Did they communicate – who knows? In some medium reptilian? As our web and radios Link the tender billions.…

Movie Reviews

A Code of of Kindness in Master and Commander

May 21, 2015 0 Nicolas

Master and Commander is a simple adventure with undercurrents of sweetness and wisdom. What I enjoyed particularly was the strength of character across differences in personality, opinion, and experience. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a youth in battle or a…

Music

Neighbourhood

May 16, 2015 2 Nicolas

Sunlight in the leaves – such a sweet reprieve. Like old mates the trees communicate. Mellienia In the spruce, I see it, whisper in this second – a truth to me. It ‘s hanging about my yard – the…

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A Celebration of Life and Wisdom

Thoughts from a window cleaner

True Magic in Pan’s Labyrinth

A River in the Rainforest: How the Most Beautiful Moments Exist within the Mundane

Vesta Coffee Roasters – Las Vegas

Engage!

Thoughts from a window cleaner

True Magic in Pan’s Labyrinth

A River in the Rainforest: How the Most Beautiful Moments Exist within the Mundane

Vesta Coffee Roasters – Las Vegas

Engage!

Night Flight

Espresso Guidelines at The Jewel Cafe

Dinosaurs

A Code of of Kindness in Master and Commander

Neighbourhood

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