Season’s greetings, gentle reader. In this Christmas day post, I want to celebrate a fictional conversation that took place three decades ago today (kind of, in a fictitious way). It’s all about what makes for great writing – a subject which will never cease to fascinate me. Is the best writing a chain of inevitabilities? […]
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The Dark Side… and The Light
“There has been an awakening… Have you felt it?” Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is already blessed with perhaps the greatest movie trailer there has ever been. If you have not yet seen it, please do yourself the favour of your life and view it now: I can’t even begin to describe how […]
The 368 day blogaversary gift: What allows us to love?
What is it that allows us to love? Quite a big question. But allow me to proffer one possible answer, by way of a blogaversary gift to you. A begerm’d blogaversaryGentle – nay patient and perhaps overly tolerant – reader, time has stolen a march on me. I received an e-mail from the good folks […]
Are your Buddha quotations ethically sourced?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you spend any time on Twitter, you will very soon come across tweeted quotations of a motivational or spiritual bent. But can you trust these endless quotations? Are your Buddha quotations ethically sourced? Say such a quotation grabs you. You then face a Twitterers’ dilemma. To RT […]
Abundance thinking: Give all your good stuff away
Gentle reader: Do you fear there will never be enough? Or do you know there will always be more? I love serendipity. You never know when a serendipitous moment or confluence of events/thoughts/circumstances might occur. But there will always be further instances of serendipity. When something serendipitous happens, you should always take note and savour […]
A great time or a lousy time
Gentle reader: You may well not like Black Sabbath as much as I do. You may well not like them at all.* I defend to the death your right not to dig the Sabbath. But even as much as I love them, I do not think I love Black Sabbath as much as Henry Rollins. […]
What’s the first rule of Quiet Club?
How does silence make you feel? When did you last experience total silence? Would you pay for silence? Silence is hard to come by. And it is the easiest thing in the world to destroy. Silence is not for everyone. “Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all nature,” […]
The pride and joy of the 35-year service certificate
When’s your workaversary? Do you know how long it’s been since you entered the grown-ups’ world of work for good? I have a ridiculous memory for dates. I realised the other day that today (Saturday 30 August 2014) marks my 20-year workaversary (if we’re comfortable with using a term like that). It’s exactly 20 years […]
Away from the rectangles
Tune out, turn off, drop out. How tough do you find it to switch off from the myriad modes of communication, distraction, delight and infuriation that our magnificent modern world has to offer? Do you suffer from a terminal fear of missing out (FOMO)? Why do you think that might be? My ever-eloquent friend Heather […]
Write with purpose, expecting nothing in return
What’s the best medium for self-expression for you? If you’re of the blogging persuasion, what do you think makes for compelling, authentic writing? I had a highly enjoyable Twitter chat on these topics with US blogger and outstanding gent Christopher De Mers recently. Christopher has written a post entitled Selfies, which identifies four key qualities […]
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