Today Christmas Day is the 8th anniversary of the passing of George Michael who died on Christmas day 2016. I have been majorly influenced by pop singers and icons. I remember Tommy Steele, Bill Haley and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Dusty Springfield, Amy Whitehouse, Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Kate Bush, Prince, Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Cher,...
This was from someone who had seen one of my videos and wanted to know more. We spoke briefly on the phone and I asked for his email. I do not know him. Oh that all humans could emulate this tone and caliber of response. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have received such a heartfelt and truly transparent communication from another human being. This shows me that the...
René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, scientist and philosopher. He was born and raised in France, but traveled extensively around Europe and spent most of his working life in the Dutch Republic.[/caption] This idea of thinking about thinking came into my head about seven o'clock in the evening Friday the 13th - unlucky for some? but maybe not so. I'm trying to figure out...
I had the privilege this evening of facilitating a meeting by zoom that was the closest to becoming a role model for social and cultural meetings including committee meetings This was about dowsing and was a spin off from a rather inappropriate group organised by the British Society of Dowsers a few months ago. I have been a member of the BSD on and off for ages and have done dowsing since I...
I agreed to give a counseling session to one of my long-standing clients on a Sunday morning. I know him well enough that he would only ask for such a thing if he wasn't in extreme difficulty and so it was. He talked a lot about his work situation and the fact that his boss criticized him in front of a group on a remote call. There was something else that he needed to talk to me about and...
You find out the strength of the wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down . C.S. Lewis. We experienced last night and this morning one of the biggest batterings of wind we have had this year. We felt its force though we are protected by being in a valley. From about three o'clock in the morning when a red warning was issued to about 11 o'clock in the morning the elements huffed and...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703
