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There's a monk in every monkey
INANITIES


RANDOM SPLASHES
January 2021 They come hurtling at us each day, the intimations of mortality, the splatters of loss and despair. We try to find balance,...


EVOLUTION / INERTIA
Neither is as drastic as we imagine. A lot changes discreetly during dormancy, a lot stays quietly unaltered during adaptation. Our...


EXUBERANCE / SOBRIETY
In our unrelenting pursuit of excitement, and avoidance of tedium, we tend to forget that what we are really looking for is just a better...


PREDICTABILITY / UNKNOWNNESS
In our big fear – the unknown – also lies our big wonder, the thrill of surprise and adventure. This predicament has one tragicomic...


DECADENCE / AUSTERITY
Indulgence and abstinence – and all the middling paths in between – can aggregate to a life richly explored and experienced. Need there...


SYMMETRY / ERRATICISM
Nature is perhaps more appealing for all its deviances, which only accentuate – and get accentuated by – the impeccably laid out patterns...


SOPHISTICATION / NAÏVETÉ
There is this certain disarming simplicity in the intricacies, a calm chaos in what initially looks like order. I sit there in that one...


SUBVERSION / CONFORMITY
Nature, it appears, is a study in paradoxes. The closer you go, the longer you gaze, the more intriguing it gets. I share with you, in...
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