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April 2008--Now with added Fishing !!
Greetings, gentle reader. This is the central page for this, my personal website.
If you were looking for "Jolyon Patten, reinsurance litigator" (oh, go on, I am a swan) click here. Otherwise, poke about amongst the links on either side of the page and see where you end up.
There are two parts to this site: Blooming, the moving picture (or blog), and the more static element here which contains all sorts of other bits and pieces that form part of the rag-bag of anyone's life, this representing my own microcosm of the human condition. Some of my influences are also listed, as my version of Montaigne's arriere boutique of the mind, a sort of private repository of things where the mind feels at home.
Guiding idea
The living do not die. Living things absolutely do not die. Only dying things die. It's not a joke. It's true. As long as you're alive, you won't die, so don't worry. When you die, you won't be alive, so don't worry about that either. Even when you hear it said like this, can you still not find peace of mind?
-- Hakuun Yasutani, Commentary on Dogen's Genjokoan (trans. Paul Jaffe)