FRIENDS: Surely a wonderful gift?
If we have really good friends, the kind we can share happy times, bad times and our most embarrassing red-faced moments with, we’re fortunate beyond measure.
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CLUTTER: Keep or Chuck?
> Don’t Own so Much Clutter
You’ll be Pleased to See Your House on Fire!
Wendell Berry
THIS WEEK I’ve been musing upon an article I read months ago in Time Magazine
that Americans now have more possessions than any society in history. Some
writer, and I
ANGER: Is it often an own goal?
> If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.
Korean proverb.
A friend once remarked, determined to put anger into some kind of perspective,
'It's simply strong emotion negatively expressed.' Is that I wonder? Alas,
'negative expression' can run
BUTTERFLIES AND BLOGS: A good match?
Curious about words like 'blog'? At seventy, I've learned two things: Love. Forgiveness. As a butterfly mind jumping between topics, perhaps blogging can bring discipline to my scattered musings.
HAPPINESS: Do we have it?
> Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
A week or so ago, I heard someone remark on Radio 4, ' I think we are in the
end of days'. Wow. Clearly an individual who doesn't
HONOUR: How important is it?
There is no escape it would seem from Brexit. How did we get in such a state?
ANNA'S INQUIRING ALPHABET: More Questions than Answers
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers
Voltaire
'For God’s sake give me some peace!’ How many of us have muttered these words or similar ones?Whether you’ve expressed it this way or more on the lines of, ‘When for ***** sake am I going