coins – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

Year of the Green [Wood] Dragon Has Arrived! (10.2.2024)

10/02/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

It is time for Cards, red envelopes, coins, incense and banging the gong! The head of the household (me) – walks around the house banging a small gong over three-laps! The news is said to drive-out the old (stale) ‘Qi’ (Virtuous Energy) and welcome-in the ‘new’ energy – which in this year takes the form of a ‘green’ (wood) Dragon! As the Dragon is elusive, and given that I am embodying its Spirit at this precise moment – I do not appear in the photographs – and yet I am ‘everywhere’ throughout this ancient procedure!

Gee: “1993” School Project Regarding “Hong Kong” – Coins & Stamps! (23.11.2023)

23/11/2023 Adrian (釋大道)

Therefore, we reject Bourgeois notions of ‘nationalism’ – whilst recognising the ‘International’ identity of the Working-Class! It is a resounding irony that whilst Gee delivers hundreds of babies within the British NHS – many of the parents of those babies actively work to have Gee expelled from the UK premised entirely on her bodily differences – whilst simultaneously welcoming in to the UK thousands of Chinese ‘criminals’ who recently participated in the US-derived riots in Hong Kong! These are just some of the dialectical paradoxes that we live within.

Oxford: William and Mary Half-Penny (1694) – Discovered (1960)

28/10/2021 Adrian (釋大道)

My mother – Diane Wyles (nee Gibson) – along with her family, were evacuated fro Lewisham in the East End of London around 1942 following

Crossrail Archaeology – Museum of London (Docklands) (11.2.2017)

12/02/2017 Adrian (釋大道)

A pictorial visit around the Museum of London’s Tunnel Archaeology Exhibition in the heart of London’s Docklands.