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Tag: monty python
Monty Python’s Da Vinci Code (avec rabbits)?
Gentle reader, a word of warning: This post concerns rabbits. It covers John Cleese’s views on rabbits (a conspiracy that goes deep?) and the magic of Twitter, concluding with some uplifting news for rabbitkind. Money, it has long been alleged, is the root of all evil. But could it be that the root of all […]
Twin Peaks, atom bombs, beautiful, beautiful stuff
White rabbits!* Welcome to the second half of 2017. Welcome to the rest of your life. From this point on, you can create the world and the life that you want. You have it in you. All you need is the idea. The well of inspiration is potentially depthless. Ideas can transform everything. This is […]
#7songs2016: All in All by @sbrownehr
A Boxing Day present for you, gentle reader. It’s my honour today to share a lovely guest post from my dear friend Steve Browne – quite possibly the most upbeat and inspiring gent you will meet in social media land. Steve is an HR director, a board member of SHRM, and a constant, singularly positive […]
Remembrance of social media past (with bonus Bowie)
Social media is endlessly new. Endlessly now. It is always about the moment. Social media is endlessly changing, ever-evolving. But relics remain of what came before. While social media is all about building, erasing and rebuilding the impression of the endlessly new, social media as we know it is now comparatively long in tooth. […]
Creativity: Play it naked?
Creativity is in all of us, in one form or another. How best to bring it out? Taking an idea from thought to expression is often about giving inspiration the chance to strike. If you know me, you know I like a good spot of serendipity. Very close together t’other day (Monday 3 October 2016, […]
Introversion, crunchy frogs & Quiet
Gentle reader, what was the last book that truly spoke to you? For me, it’s a book by Susan Cain, entitled Quiet. I want to tell you what it means to me. And my good friends Helen Tracey and Siobhan Sheridan are also here to offer their words on introversion and on Quiet. I wish […]
Is this the real life?
Real life? Just fantasy? Is it high time you took just one day out of life to escape from reality? What, truly, is life’s purpose? Is society nought but a cock-up? It is a truth all but universally acknowledged in blogging circles that around this time of year – as people head off on their […]
Illumine the whole of time
Depending on how you look at it, nothing is inevitable, or everything is. Inevitably, we have a certain amount of time. But how we spend that time, how we illuminate our lives and those of others, is not inevitable. You have a choice. There is only one thing that is guaranteed to happen in the […]
Imagination can be trained
Is your imagination razor-sharp? Every one of us has an imagination. But not all of us choose to use it. Imagination is in my view an often underused quality in modern life. Imagination doesn’t tend to respond well to tension, stress, or being rushed or forced. Imagination tends to flourish when you give it room […]
