Salt in the wound It really is rubbing salt into the wound when for one reason or another you find yourself on your own, knowing that in the vicinity the majority of other people are getting tipsy, having their Christmas lunch, meeting family and friends, no doubt enjoying generous measures of mulled wine. We can forget that it is also a time for family arguments, but that's another story. If...
A lovely way to start the day. A whole 60 seconds of video about LOVE (not lurve) is Jesus’ message misunderstood? As some of you know, I have regular conversations with my friend John who is one of the few people who are on my wavelength and he has been so over the decades. We meet on Skype and between us we generate enough alchemy for me to improve my understanding of what is important, and...
Bring on Wetherspoons! I wish this country could be run by Wetherspoons. They are very focused on customer service; I am reminded of the text in the Bible beginning ' no man can serve two masters.....' you can't have a profit-based power based globalist mind set at the same time as serving John Smith who cannot necessarily speak up for himself and who needs a listening ear. It was a joy to come...
Let's respond to these statements together # I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, life (that) others expected of me # I wish I hadn't worked so hard # I wish that had the courage to express my feelings # I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends # I wish that I had let myself be happier You can read the article here I have decided to see these as quiz questions and...
This is a day to celebrate local institutions. We had breakfast at the " Fat Boyz cafe" at Gravel Hill, Seldson, Croydon. Traditional menu, well cooked up market from the greasy spoon model, lots of local faithful customers, a waitress who is business like and with whom you do not mess. We saw a man and his son eating breakfast. The son was being very difficult about his food, he must have been...
Peace is not stasis. Peace is not 'doing nothing'. Peace is active, a dynamic. We have a choice of two vectors, and only two. We can either do things to bring people together, or we can do things to cause people to move apart. This is the core of what it means for us as human beings with free will. We can think of the idea of a moral compass. In other words what are our priorities? A clue is...
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