The foam photography museum is on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. Recently, I went there to see an exhibition of photography by Diane Arbus, the American photographer. The exhibition is laid out over several floors, with narrow stairways leading up and down between rooms. This is not a museum for anyone … Continue reading
… and to a fresh new look and direction for Perilous Adventures. For the past several years, Perilous has been an online magazine, featuring interviews with writers, and lots of wonderful new works. You can still access the archive of material by visiting our old site here … In 2013, Perilous … Continue reading
I’m working on a long, wordy post about my first couple of weeks in Amsterdam. There has been so much to take in; so much beauty and kindness, and sadness, too. In the meanwhile, here are some pictures (yes, I finally got the little red camera working!).
This year has, quite frankly, sucked the big one. And the turning of the year is the time when I usually, like most people, sit down and give myself a good talking to about all the failures of the year that has just passed, before coming up with a punitive … Continue reading
Cool loneliness doesn’t provide any resolution or give us ground under our feet. It challenges us to step into a world of no reference point without polarizing or solidifying. This is called the middle way, or the sacred path of the warrior. When you wake up in the morning and … Continue reading
In the immortal words of Nancy Sinatra: these boots are made for walking and that’s just what they’ll do …
As a reader, I’m fairly hard to please. I never used to be. As a small child I would happily read cereal boxes, ticket stubs, IKEA instructions. But, these days, my tastes have changed. Lately, I’ve read some amazing books, including Lauren Groff’s Arcadia, Wade Davis’s The Wayfinders (based on … Continue reading
