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About Time
About Time I don't know about you; but if I watch or read anything that involves explanations about space/time I lose the plot in about 30 seconds. Even with the lovely Professor Brian Cox (brain the size of a planet) who tries to make everything accessible; for a...
Many Ways to Slice the Pie
Many ways to slice the Pie I am often struck by the fact that many theories that superficially look different are actually saying the same thing.I was talking to a friend yesterday who has just finished a course called Internal Family Systems. This is a way of looking...
Starting New Projects
As part of a general ongoing declutter and reorganisation it has begun to dawn on me that I have an awful lot of ongoing projects. I cannot even say half finished, sometimes box has been opened, said project looks a bit complicated and box gets closed again. My...
Unexpected lessons at the gym
Not wanting to become totally sedentary I decided to join the gym in Chippenham. Stiffness runs in our family and my mum became almost totally de-conditioned. To be fair she hated exercise from childhood; she would exercise if the physio was standing in front of her;...
Finding Your Truth
Being fairly newly retired is proving interesting on a number of fronts. I am sure many of you are also retired and I imagine you may have thought about some of issues I want to talk about. I think I am right in suggesting that we 'get' work, we do something...
What Lies Beneath?
What lies beneath? I recently spent a week in the Isle of Wight, visiting family and also the Open Art Studio sessions around the island. I love looking at what people produce, but more so having conversations with the artists about their process.My first visit was...
Looking for Logos (finding meaning!)
I have recently read the book Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. He was a professor of Neurology and Psychiatry who survived Auschwitz. He had a 1:28 chance that he would survive in the camp; he was lucky, but also he believed that he had a book to write. He...