Beautifully Broken Weekend Edition | Issue 5

Editorial, Feature Articles, Daily Enlightenment Prompts, 25 Feb-2 Mar 2024

EDITORIAL

The weekend edition is out! I would have preferred to publish yesterday but a strange time-loss incident took place. My wife Catherine and I were visiting my Scottish friend Steve at his house in Châteauneuf-Grasse. It turned midnight and I resolved to go home and get a decent night's sleep so I could start my fiction feature segment for this week's edition. I asked for a cup of coffee, which I drank. I noticed about half way through the coffee that Catherine had drifted off to sleep. When I finished the coffee I checked my watch and it was 4am! I checked with Steve and he was confounded too. We had been discussing the terrible situation between Israel and Palestine, but certainly not for four hours. We just couldn't work out what had happened between midnight and 4am! Catherine woke up and felt that she'd only drifted off for ten minutes. So here's this weekend's slightly late edition including the next part of my modern haibun story Into The Labyrinth.

One of this week's posts related to a return to childhood joy by way of Taoist time travel, another to psychonautics (the journey within), and yet another to small moments of enlightenment that serve as touchstone on the Way. Perhaps the energy of all those ideas came together to orchestrate our time loss moment, or perhaps it was a sleepy Friday night and we'd just had too much to drink. Who can say?

Bon weekend! I hope time is more stable for you than it has been for me lately :)

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