Archive for the ‘Emotional’ Category
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. [Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance*]
Yesterday, on my ‘experience’ wanderings (that’s what I like to call them) I happened into a bar where a few, maybe 30 or so, people were learning to ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
“I am available on most weeknights, not degree educated but well versed in matters of politics, economics, religion and the like. Personal disasters like career disappointments and failed romantic encounters can be discussed and I am not too averse to bouncing balls, kicking balls and hitting balls with a bat ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
My 60 year plus mother holds some very set view about certain sections of society that may have some basis in experience but most likely does not. Since she comes for the generation of the great –isms, I assumed that my siblings and I just brushed off these prejudices, sometimes ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Unlike many of my peers, when I was in my middle teenage years, I knew that I wanted to have a family; I wanted to be a father. I was going to find the right woman, get married, have babies and have a good job to support it all. I ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
We do not need to look for statistics to prove that the rate of marriage breakdowns is growing. Many of us have many have experienced it ourselves or have close family and friends who have and those of us with children will know that a significant proportion of their classmates ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Here is one man's view of how the simple, not necessarily the easy, can make you happy. Though written from the sense of the simple home in the Brazilian favelas compared to the high life in the USA, it is the emphasis on simplicity, difficulty and community that the sense ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
A Buckinghamshire man diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2006 who won £10,000 betting he would be alive years later, died at the age of 60 a few months short of collecting another £10,000 (BBC News - Buckinghamshire man who bet to beat cancer dies). On the face of it, it ...
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
“Allowing people to take time out to watch football during working hours is simply too costly, untimely, and unfair,” so says Willem Smit, a researcher at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.
It is amazing just how much the pursuit of production and profit is held up as justification not to ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
In exactly one month’s time, I will change my status once again from employed to self employed. Since it has been a long time since I have took stock of where I am, now would seem to be an appropriate time to do so. This is where I think I ...
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Dr Martin Luther King once said “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilisation, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil ...
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
"This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise, or, at least neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and ...
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
I may be getting on but my heart is still young and once in a while I don’t act my age and go out to a club with the hope of having a good dance and a drink, of course. Last night, something that occurred to me that I have ...
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
I am not so sure why but this story from the BBC website made me sad. I think, but I am not sure, it has something to do with ‘5 minutes of fame’ or is there a sense that there is much more to the story than meets the eye?
“The ...
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
If you happen to be one of the millions of people who either read or listen to the success self-help gurus that the USA seems to be able to generate in their thousands sprouting such terms as NLP, the Secret, 10 habits and other such like, the you would recognise ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
"Money brings happiness. Fine. In that case, everyone who earns enough to have a high standard of living would be able to stop work. But then they’re more troubled than ever, as if they were afraid of losing everything. Money attracts money, that’s true. Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money ...
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