What can you do that takes you to the heart of simplicity? We can all of us cut through it all, and achieve simplicity through focus. Bizarrely – to me at least – both Muhammad Ali and Garry Shandling found focus via boxing, of all things. “Boxing is all publicity,” said the dear-departed Muhammad Ali […]
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#7songs: Beasties, beer spraying and Saṃsāra
I think you know what time it is… This an update of my 2015 post, celebrating the Beastie Boys, and including an unwitting encounter of the Yauch kind in Soho Square.
Bowie, change, chance and bottling success
How can you bottle success? How can you sustain a winning streak into ongoing triumph? In most cases, the answer is not to be found in seeing what worked before, extrapolating the recipe for success, and repeating. It’s about change and the taking of chances. I love this simple definition of success from Dior Couture […]
#Blog100: How do I break out of these old patterns?
Centennially speaking, it is my delight to report to you, gentle reader, that this wee blog of mine has somehow reached its 100th post (aka #blog100, as literally no-one else will ever dub it). This post contains words of thanks and words on change… and it ain’t over ‘til Obama drops the mic. The dear […]
Stage fright? “You’re already Garry Shandling”
A wise gentleman once said to me that all of life is a performance, but none of it really matters as long as we have love, laughter, health and happiness.* By this chalk, as long as there has been human life as we’d recognise it, there has been the need to perform. Inevitably, as long […]
Life, London and a like from Luke
No matter how long your time on the planet has been, life always has more to offer. What’s the most recent thing to raise your spirits and make you feel glad to be here? I think it’s time for one of my very simple competitions. Gentle reader: From which popular fictional character are the following […]
And everything has begun again
Has life ever allowed you to look your own past, your own youth in the face? Everything is always beginning again, your youth is someone else’s youth, your future is your own. The most perfect days are the most unpredictably delightful ones, the days that move off in a new and magical direction you could […]
For friendship, for learning and for giving?
What can social media give you? What can social media help you to give to others? What’s the best thing social media has done for you lately? Care to share? Social media offers and enables so much. At its best, social media can enable people to come together and give of their best in a […]
Of Jackals, West Wings and Owning It
The West Wing is one of the greatest TV shows. The dialogue and characters are an endless source of delight and inspiration. This is a look at the greatness of two West Wing actors: Allison Janney and Rob Lowe.
After the snow, the silence
There’s just something transportingly beautiful about waking to find it’s snowed overnight. The world is still, silent and white. This morning (Sunday 17 January 2016, also my seventh Twitterversary) is the first day on which any snow has settled in the nearly 18 months since I moved here. It was an honour and a delight […]
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