I’ve completed the first full calendar month of walking with a break for a week in the English Lake district. I’ve walked 22 days since…
Author: Roger Hyam
I often hear people say that there are too many people in the world or even that responsible “people” should have fewer children. There is…
How does meditation work? I’m sure there are loads of scientific papers and sutra commentaries on the subject but I have one mundane theory I’d…
Having started on the Summer Solstice I’m going to blog each month to keep track of the progress. Sometimes this might just be posting a…
Just to reiterate I’m not a monk and I’m not running 26.219 mile marathons – which makes the title a bit of lie. I’m walking…
It was 20 years ago today, not that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play but that I submitted my PhD thesis. Of course that…
Pick a date, any date. I pick this one. A nice astronomical date. This is when the series of “marathons” begins. Summer Solstice 05:24 Wednesday…
By far the most common metaphor for a life is that of a journey. After all it has a beginning, middle and end. It appears…
There’s a great art house film called Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. It is about a Japanese woman who obsessively watches a flaky video of an…
I remember a story about a guy who set off to walk from the centre of the USA to the ocean relying on the kindness…
I’m just back from a four day retreat at Wiston Lodge lead by Dene Donalds that I found very powerful. My sinuses were playing up…
These trees are the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh were a vivid yellow/green and just a red filter in post process produces this effect. They were…
Stepping out for a few minutes before breakfast can be magical. Camping makes this more likely.
To encounter something living that is massively larger than you are on your way to nursery but change you.
I just used the Fukasawa theme on the Botanics Stories blog so I decided to update my own blog to something else – anything really…
What I like about photography is it is so often about what you want to say and not what reality is. Mixing this up with…
Actionable, long-term stable and semantic web compatible identifiers for access to biological collection objects
Coverage of my recent paper in The Sun – I’ve made it! But surely it should be “Its A View To A Chill.”? The film…
How Green Is Edinburgh Really?
Automated sampling of perceived naturalness across Edinburgh
The Cloud Lottery
Biophilomatics: A new field courtesy of IKEA?
I just made my first Instructable: DIY Silent Practise Guitar
For a treat I had lunch in Yo Sushi on Princes Street – and I actually felt the benefit of the air conditioning! Anyone who knows…
I took lay ordination into the Order of Interbeing as True Embracing Oak (Chân Sồi Bao Dung) on 28th August 2015 – a year ago today.…
During my photo drought I have taken to having my X-Pro 1 with the 27mm pancake in my bag. Carrying but not using. At Henry’s book…
I just wrote a blog for work about the Hill & Adamson portrait of William McNab. The first photographic portrait of a professional horticulturist?
I enjoyed this video from Veritasium it complements a blog post I wrote back in 2010 – The present moment does not exist – which does a…