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No perfect path?
The perfect path through life is impossible to define. How you choose from the paths ahead of you is everything.
Have you sufficiently weighed the impossibilities?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reminds us that when making a decision, we should consider not only the possibilities, but also the impossibilities.
Nothing but kind
Kindness is the perfect response to a world that might sometimes feel anything but kind.
New page
Welcome to 2026. May this brand-new year in your life and in all our lives prove to be the very best yet.
MJCarty.com: Top 5 posts of 2025
The five most-read posts of 2025 on MJCarty.com. My heartfelt gratitude to you if you have taken the time to read any words on this wee blog of mine.
Nirvana live in London 1989 (#GigTicketMemories)
Nirvana live at the London Astoria Lame Fest, Sunday 3 December 1989: Gig ticket-inspired memories from my first ever grunge gig… plus my surprise discovery 36 years later that there exists a photograph with both Kurt Cobain and me in the same frame.
Never to stop changing
To be alive is never to stop changing. How do you feel about change?
Using the least amount of information
What is the least that you can say to make your point?
The not-so-immaculate conception of Basil Fawlty
BASIL! When was Basil Fawlty created? The first episode of Fawlty Towers was broadcast 50 years ago this week. We can also pinpoint the day on which Basil was conceived, via Michael Palin’s The Python Years: Diaries 1968-1979.
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