I am finally learning to respond to inspiration, or is it the normal working of a creative mind, that my projected meeting in January forming a local writer and journal / diary group is important and should come about. By 'local' I mean Paulton, Midsomer Norton, and Radstock. I received the idea today, Sunday morning, 22nd December 2024, whilst listening to Radio 3 which has a blessed amount of...
I love words :-)) and I was prompted to define a word used at a coffee morning I have just attended. Whilst our beautiful England language lasts (though I would not give it more than a couple of generations) let us enjoy the subtleties. I find the most economical way of understanding a word is looking at its etymology. So, down to business.... Efficient - what dos it mean? This word first...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8xJ04j1qI I've been recommended a book by Federico Fagan called Irreducible which is about consciousness, life, computers and human nature. It is a technical and scientific work and I noticed that there are many words that although I am familiar with I have not examined them in as much depth as I could have done, so reading this book is a chance to do this ....
https://www.youtube.com/live/lbbaxUC4eSQ So when did you last have an argument? When did you last have a dialogue with people with whom you disagreed? I think that many lessons can be drawn from this YouTube Christian versus Muslim where both are obviously very well informed and are jousting with each other without loss of respect. The first thing that I learn is that you need to back up your...
Funny how things hit me out of nowhere. So first, am I avoiding or evading. Probably a bit of both. When it comes to avoiding and evading, both terms involve steering clear of something undesirable. However, there is a subtle difference between the two. Avoid typically refers to actively staying away from a situation or object, while evade often implies a more strategic or skillful way of...
Why do I write my diaries? Just to remind you, I was inspired a number of years ago by Samuel Pepys, the London diarist of the 17th century. He wrote his diary to record his experiences and observations of life in London during the restoration period. Pepys had no plans to actually publish his diary, which allowed him to be frank and uncensored. He recorded his thoughts and actions without...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
