To muse is to...

etymology: [AFr. muser (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), to waste time, trifle. In OFr. to muse, meditate = Pr. musar. Ital. musare... to stare about, idle, loiter. Middle English via OFr. muse or Latin musa from Greek mousa]

VERB —

• a. With dependent question: "c1407- Musyng, what hyt myghte be That she so straungely spake to me.'
• b. In proverbial phr: "c1700- He measures my Corn by his own Bushel, he muses as he uses..."
• c. To say or murmur meditatively: "1843 Dickens: 'Seven years dead,' mused Scrooge"

1. The action of musing; profound meditation or abstraction.
2. An instance of this, a fit of abstraction; now only in sing. (to be) in one's muses: in a state of abstraction.
3. To be at a muse: to be perplexed or uncertain; to 'wonder' (whether, how, what, etc.).

NOUN — Mythol. (Now usually with capital.) One of nine sister-goddesses, the offspring of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory), regarded as the inspirers of learning and the arts, esp. of poetry and music.

I enjoy making things and am not that particular about the medium. Wood has been a long-standing friend with many other earth elements taking part in various constructions over the years. In 1990 I moved to the monastery in New Zealand and, ironically enough, also plugged in to computers. Using digits as building blocks has become a regular pastime with graphics, words and code forming the matrix. Writing is a skill, one I would like to refine. Learning to manifest one's thoughts is a challenge (you can't believe how wonderfully amazing they look inside my head 😂) – to do it coherently is a trial. Presenting it publicly... ? I am.
At some stage I will set up a 'comments' form but think to garner some content first.

The interest in developing my writing, at the time of conceiving the site (mid 2024), had no current, clear direction. As a Buddhist monk it seems obvious that Buddhism and my monastic life will be a major influence but quite what evolves as regards a visible expression of that is what this site is about. In general I would imagine 'human experience' will be a wide enough topic-umbrella.

The concept of organizing stuff is a good one but I make no apologies if it seems to be absent.

I get asked about the triangle logo. It has been with me for several decades as my way of meeting a required monastic practice to identify personal items; it can be done with just three dots.

• It is an 'A' (for Ajahn) with a reclining, relaxed 'K' - (for Kusalo) underneath. 
• You can draw it without taking the pen off the paper - or screen. Even though there are sometimes sharp corners it, life, is a continuous path, a seamless flow.
• And a prism modifies light - it changes the way we see things. It doesn't change the light - just how we see it. There is more to life than meets the eye. And sometimes we need form to reveal the seemingly invisible, the abstract.
• A prism is like a crystal - a (crystal clear) moment of clarity that reveals the hidden colours of our life.
• The shape is symmetrical with equal balance regardless of the orientation.
• And there was a great rock band called 'Pink Floyd' with their hallmark album called 'Dark Side of the Moon' which changed the way people saw/heard/experience life... but I am just an old hippie :)

Lets see what spaces we wander into here...