Stumbled upon this quotation recently, and it's been popping up regularly ever since, in the way these things do. How apt for our times.

It's 11/11, which is an especially auspicious day as one of the few dates of the year where USians align with the rest of the world, and also Lhabab Duchen, so tashi delek!

Um... that's not what that usually means. Always check with a proficient speaker of the language you're using, or you could end up making a silent but deadly mistake!

Hallowe'en-themed bread! Great idea from my local bakery.

Despite studying vocabulary acquisition, I'd never thought to test my own vocabulary size before. Fun, free & informative. Probably based on a corpus (or corpora) because corpus analysis estimates there to be around 28,000 word families in the English language.

There's a lot of weather around

Basically me fighting with AI:

Oh, you like etymology? Which image do you think of when you hear the word 'hippocampus'?

As of today, I am the proud owner (and reluctant user) of reading glasses. Thought I'd escaped the onset of middle age, but it is now clear that I haven't. Glasses make things clearer.

Losar tashi delek! I always love it when Tibetan new year is a month later than Chinese new year, because it gives me a 3rd chance to reach my "by new year" goals. Or not reach them.

The entire building is grey.

Just completed a short meditation retreat, which I combined with a daily walk in the nearby hills. Ask me anything..

Quiz: What do these four things have in common?