It's a dangerous world....
The Advertising Standards Authority managed to drag a wry smile out of me this morning as I read the news that they'd banned an advert for Heinz Baked Beans because it might encourage children to hurt…
Tagged: personal-development
To sleep, perchance to...
...have weird people trying to eat you? I'm pretty sure that the Shakespeare quote involved the word 'dream' but my latest nocturnal meanderings by my subconscious were not of the peaceful type! I'm a…
"If I think back, I get depressed. If I think ahead, I get afraid."
I came across this quote on the 'Humans of New York' page. If you've not encountered it I'd recommend it. The picture and short quote - and that's all it was - can be found here. It sometimes feels …
Dandelion Breaks and how to avoid them
I have always been a great fan of Berke Breathed's cartoon strip 'Bloom County'. For those of you whose life is as yet incomplete, lacking reporting from the strange world of Bloom County, I refer you…
To Peace....
...and before everyone leaps up, glasses and coffee mugs in hands, and shouts 'To Peace' back to me, I'm not offering a toast here! I'm thinking that it's about time we made 'peace' a verb. Henri Nouw…
Due Diligence....
My reading habits - OK, I tend to read everything that's put in front of me, from books to the backs of toothpaste tubes - lead me in to all sorts of places. As part of my daily spiritual development…
FOMO and FOHMO
As always, late to the picnic, but I recently encountered the acronymn FOMO. It's not a new type of washing powder, but short for Fear Of Missing Out. It's defined in Wikipedia as : Fear of missing o…
Mid-life crisis? Don't mind if I DON'T...
I've recently concluded that I couldn't handle a mid-life crisis. Apart from the fact that I would have had to have had an arithmetically accurate mid-life crisis about 14 years ago, I just don't thin…
Ideas mean shit...it's doing it that counts!
In my last post I described how my mortality had snuck up on me and dumped a rather large poo in my living room in the fact that in 15 years time I'll be pushing 70. See here for my thoughts...they h…
Where did all the time go?
— The other day I was sitting, drinking tea, thinking of nothing in particular when the following thought entered in to my head. "In less than 20 years you'll be 70 years old. When did THAT happen?" …