Nicholas Colloff
@ncolloff.bsky.social
Contemplation in a world of action, art, nature, mysticism.
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A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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My books of the year in two categories:
The first published this year: Donald and his Seven Cows by Angus Peter Campbell ncolloff.blogspot.com/2025/09/dona...
The second a re-read of a novel published in the 1930s: Claude Houghton's Julian Grant Loses His Way
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The first published this year: Donald and his Seven Cows by Angus Peter Campbell ncolloff.blogspot.com/2025/09/dona...
The second a re-read of a novel published in the 1930s: Claude Houghton's Julian Grant Loses His Way
ncolloff.blogspot.com/2020/04/half...
December 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My books of the year in two categories:
The first published this year: Donald and his Seven Cows by Angus Peter Campbell ncolloff.blogspot.com/2025/09/dona...
The second a re-read of a novel published in the 1930s: Claude Houghton's Julian Grant Loses His Way
ncolloff.blogspot.com/2020/04/half...
The first published this year: Donald and his Seven Cows by Angus Peter Campbell ncolloff.blogspot.com/2025/09/dona...
The second a re-read of a novel published in the 1930s: Claude Houghton's Julian Grant Loses His Way
ncolloff.blogspot.com/2020/04/half...
The Buddhist scholar tackles the great esoteric Christian (and scientist) by whom he was greatly influenced (and translated into Japanese).
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Buddhist scholar tackles the great esoteric Christian (and scientist) by whom he was greatly influenced (and translated into Japanese).
On a Deserted Shore by Kathleen Raine, one of two poets that Eliot regretted not publishing.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
On a Deserted Shore by Kathleen Raine, one of two poets that Eliot regretted not publishing.
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On the River of Life, 1896, by Hugo Simberg.
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
On the River of Life, 1896, by Hugo Simberg.
In the conference gaps re-reading Bede’s Return to the Centre. The first book’s of his I read and that led to correspondence, his mentorship and our friendship. One of the holiest people I have known.
October 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In the conference gaps re-reading Bede’s Return to the Centre. The first book’s of his I read and that led to correspondence, his mentorship and our friendship. One of the holiest people I have known.
A beautiful and poetic novel of what it means to belong to a place actually loved and known.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A beautiful and poetic novel of what it means to belong to a place actually loved and known.
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The author, J.B. Priestley, was born on this date in 1894, now principally known for An Inspector Calls (for being a set text in schools), he was a polymath, and under the guise of the bluff Yorkshireman, was a serious intellectual. Jung described him as his best lay interpreter!
September 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The author, J.B. Priestley, was born on this date in 1894, now principally known for An Inspector Calls (for being a set text in schools), he was a polymath, and under the guise of the bluff Yorkshireman, was a serious intellectual. Jung described him as his best lay interpreter!
The extraordinary subtlety of being simple. Without question the book I would recommend first as an introduction to Christianity (and worth reading by all as a remarkable reminder).
September 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The extraordinary subtlety of being simple. Without question the book I would recommend first as an introduction to Christianity (and worth reading by all as a remarkable reminder).
Gunn's 'mysticism' is tightly woven to his characters and - their hopes, loves, humours and struggles - such that the 'well at the world's end' is everywhere, for the world's ending is placed in every particular being, every person, as their birthright.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Gunn's 'mysticism' is tightly woven to his characters and - their hopes, loves, humours and struggles - such that the 'well at the world's end' is everywhere, for the world's ending is placed in every particular being, every person, as their birthright.
ncolloff.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-...
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A Fool collected, a gallery enjoyed and a saint acquired …
August 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A Fool collected, a gallery enjoyed and a saint acquired …
From the depths of Buddhist illumination to the charming surfaces of the folkloric appreciation of fisherfolk, Blofeld explores Kuan Yin, both goddess and Bodhisattva of Compassion, with grace, insight and humility.
July 25, 2025 at 5:59 AM
From the depths of Buddhist illumination to the charming surfaces of the folkloric appreciation of fisherfolk, Blofeld explores Kuan Yin, both goddess and Bodhisattva of Compassion, with grace, insight and humility.
Swirl, 1937 by Emily Carr
July 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Swirl, 1937 by Emily Carr
Even Song, 1930, by Agnes Pelton
July 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Even Song, 1930, by Agnes Pelton
Woman with a Leaping Cat, 1945 by Robert Colquhoun.
July 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Woman with a Leaping Cat, 1945 by Robert Colquhoun.
Landscape with Elements, 1975-76 by John Craxton.
July 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Landscape with Elements, 1975-76 by John Craxton.
George Herbert on Love …
July 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
George Herbert on Love …
Brahma in his pavilion in a Budapest garden.
July 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Brahma in his pavilion in a Budapest garden.
Fascinating, having read this excellent account of the conquest of the indigenous in Argentina and its relation to the birth of evolutionary science, I was surprised to hear from a friend over the weekend that in Argentina, it had recently been described as 'an empty territory.'
July 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Fascinating, having read this excellent account of the conquest of the indigenous in Argentina and its relation to the birth of evolutionary science, I was surprised to hear from a friend over the weekend that in Argentina, it had recently been described as 'an empty territory.'
Blue Vases, 1983 by Josef Czpaski
An accomplished artist and one of the most attractive spirits of the last century, if only we all had lived so well, with such integrity and compassion.
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An accomplished artist and one of the most attractive spirits of the last century, if only we all had lived so well, with such integrity and compassion.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Blue Vases, 1983 by Josef Czpaski
An accomplished artist and one of the most attractive spirits of the last century, if only we all had lived so well, with such integrity and compassion.
ncolloff.blogspot.com/.../creating....
An accomplished artist and one of the most attractive spirits of the last century, if only we all had lived so well, with such integrity and compassion.
ncolloff.blogspot.com/.../creating....
Raven Stealing the Sun, 1978 by Ken Mowatt.
June 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Raven Stealing the Sun, 1978 by Ken Mowatt.
Fountain cleaning …
June 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Fountain cleaning …
Undoubtedly worth waiting for …
June 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Undoubtedly worth waiting for …
When the world worn professor through the love of Iris and the remembrance of irises steps into the ‘other kingdom’ in the last of the stories here, you know Hesse caught a taste of perfection, rarely achieved in literature.
June 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
When the world worn professor through the love of Iris and the remembrance of irises steps into the ‘other kingdom’ in the last of the stories here, you know Hesse caught a taste of perfection, rarely achieved in literature.
Masterly weird tales of shifts in time, disturbing illuminations, influenced by the Fourth Way and Jung, with glimmerings of social satire and comment.
June 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Masterly weird tales of shifts in time, disturbing illuminations, influenced by the Fourth Way and Jung, with glimmerings of social satire and comment.