The Audi leaps up the autostrada like Buffalo Bill´s ´water-smooth silver stallion´in e.e.cummings´poem. Or like Joseph & Mary´s donkey; because it´s going home to be taxed. Its home is in Bayern. The route from Pisa to Munich is studded with history like stocknageln on a hiker´s staff. First, there are the war-zones. Two thousand years ago [...]
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Vignettes della Vita ein Gelegenheitslamas #33 Here comes your nineteenth ecumenical council; or, A plague on both your houses.
Posted in Vignettes on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vignettes della Vita ein Gelegenheitslamas #31 I Woke Up This Morning
Posted in Buddhism, Dharma, Travel, Vignettes, tagged Buddhism, Dharma, Switzerland, Travel on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Barocksaal of the Carl der Große centre is named after a series of 18th.C canvases which cover the four walls from floor to ceiling, showing European aristocracy at play. Delicate ceiling-mouldings and paneling, and an elegant Delft-tiled stove, no two tiles the same, complete the sense of a heritage of effortless refinement. The segue into the modern [...]
Vignettes della Vita ein Gelegenheitslamas #29 Springtime for Zürich and Zwingli
Posted in Buddhism, Dharma, Travel, Vignettes, tagged Buddhism, Dharma, Switzerland, Travel on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Springtime for Zürich. A charming reach of broad cobbled alleyways: antiques, restaurants, jewellers, galleries, rare books, bespoke furniture. The spring sun extracts a smiling confession of beige from the rainy grisaille which normally crosses the face of the city’s stones. Tourists from even more stratospherically costly locations saunter towards a late breakfast or their second cappuccino. Across a steep slope two foundations face [...]
