As we grow and gain more experience we can see things from a different point of view so although I have written about this topic before, it popped into my mind - as things do - to revisit it and see what if anything new comes along. I should add that before writing stuff I don't know what I'm going to write, it's not like keeping to a script. It's more like unrolling a carpet. What I'm about to...
I wrote a few weeks ago about a recent conference that I attended. The organizers were unwise enough to ask me for my opinion little realising that I would write voluminously but this is my contribution to get things as good as they can possibly be. Greetings Dear organisers I'm going to give you my considered opinion on a possible future path of your interactions bearing in mind the great...
Somone having a rant about .... everything Oh, I gota rant about the absolute plague of scammers in the UK—it’s like they’ve turned conning people into a national sport, and they’re all competing for gold! You’ve got these slimy toerags calling you up, pretending to be from "HMRC" or "your bank," with accents so dodgy they sound like they’ve been practicing English from a pirated VHS of...
Asking AI What to do It is all too easy these days to consult Chat GBT, co-pilot, Gemini etc and let it do your thinking for you so I have pasted the response I got from Gemini at the bottom of this post and meanwhile I have written from my heart what I have observed to be true in my life, this time around, on this planet. The implications of that statement will be more obvious to some than...
Many times people apologise to me during the day based on the rather curious argument that I am within one metre of them on the street and they think I am going to step in their way so they apologise just to make sure. I wonder if it is just a habit to apologise for one’s existence. I don’t notice this when I go abroad so I think it must be an English thing. Some apologies I listen to with more...
This is a mandala created by Françoise my partner who loves doing such things as a therapy but probably because for its own sake. The purpose of a mandala is to help transform ordinary minds into enlightened ones. This discipline is associated with Hindu and Buddhist cultures and are believed to represent different aspects of the universe and are used as Instruments of meditation and symbols of...
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