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Storm Hector arrives in Wyndford, Glasgow, with a split tree and a rainbow

And it's still early...

Hands off Scotland's powers — sign the petition

Today, the U.K. parliament showed its contempt for Scotland, mocking S.N.P. M.P.s who walked out in protest over being silenced as the U.K. government tries to seize back devolved powers from the Scottish parliament.

Sign the S.N.P. petition to keep Scottish powers in Scotland.

A modest suggestion for Lionel Shriver

If Ms. Shriver is so concerned about the publication of books that can be fairly described as "an incoherent, tedious, meandering and insensible pile of mixed-paper recycling," she ought to consider not writing any more of them.

Book Review: Bow First, Ask Questions Later by Gesshin Claire Greenwood

It’s disappointing that this incoherent mess of a book was written by one of the better contemporary writers on Zen Buddhism, Gesshin Claire Greenwood, author of the excellent blog That’s So Zen.

This book is so different in style, tone and content from her blog, I suspect the fault is more with her editor at Wisdom Publications — although, if I hadn’t read her blog, I would have assumed that her book didn’t have an editor at all. The prose in her blog is usually careful, serious and con...

The Music of What Happens

The Music of What Happens from Dogo Barry Graham on Vimeo.

It's the 150th birthday of Charles rennie Mackintosh

You can find his designs all over central Glasgow. Here's his railway terminus, which was never built.

Haiku

duckling left behind
paddles to catch up
with mother and siblings

Note to writers who take themselves seriously

"A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicise such things."
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The sporting life in wyndford

I'm walking past the derelict football pitch near my flat. A middle-aged man rides past on a bicycle, and points to the rusted goal post. "A scored ma furst iver goal in therr!" he tells me.

Video: Dharma talk on suffering, the First Noble Truth

Suffering: The Buddha's First Noble Truth from Dogo Barry Graham on Vimeo.

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