“We have a stake in one another. What binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.” In times as divided as these, with politics descending into chaotic flux and with appalling acts of racial abuse seen and heard on UK streets, we must not lose sight of who we are. Today, I started […]
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The game is always changing
The game is never fair. The game is always changing. The pleasure is to play. I’m sure I’ve never seen my country so polarised, so (almost) evenly divided. I woke up early this morning, just as the major news outlets began one by one to “call” the victory of the Leave campaign in the UK’s […]
Be kind while there is still time
Words have a power all their own. Words are the basis of all systems of belief and of all political structures. Words are the ultimate luxury. Words are everyone’s. We can, should and must use words as we wish. We should speak and write freely. We should always think about what we say. The new […]
What takes you into the heart of simplicity?
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 […]
#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 […]
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