Perhaps not the most cheerful start to the week, but thoughts of mortality and how brief our time here is have been on my mind these last few days - for easily understandable reasons, the anniversary of my mum's passing, my father in law's 86th birthday, my wife's cousin's terminal illness - concentrating the mind.
Posted on Monday Feb 22 11:14:00 GMT 2010
A number of Spiritual traditions see our existence on this planet as being merely a dream or illusion and that our purpose here is to awaken from this dream. I do myself, broadly speaking, subscribe to that philosophy. There is though, a risk that this belief can lead us to some unhelpful conclusions and strategies.
Posted on Tuesday Feb 16 10:16:00 GMT 2010
This morning on the Today programme there was a discussion about the desirability (and sustainability) of banks making huge profits - on the back of Barclays posting an £11 billion plus profit.
Posted on Monday Feb 8 9:47:00 GMT 2010
Just as I was about to start writing this, there was a commotion outside in the street which turned out to be a couple who had managed to put unleaded petrol in their diesel car - something I've done once myself - it's the kind of thing you only do once , at least in my experience.
