Easy Options - don’t give in to them

Posted on | December 10, 2011 | 3 Comments

The alarmist nature of our media encourages, mostly, despair and gloom in us, the citizens bombarded by it. The only problem with this is that it is ultimately easy despair, mutely prodding us to give up and become cynical. We can’t afford this kind of easy I-can-do-nothing-about-it despondency. In fact, it's not really an option because it’s predicated on a false choice. It leads us to think, “Oh, I don’t know what to do so I’ll do nothing”. Well, that’s simply not true, because we can all do something about making our world a little better, even if it’s just being decent to our fellow citizens. Think of a way, any small way, you can make a difference today. Me, I just went on a walk with a plastic bag and picked up garbage as I went along.  Several people said encouraging things ("Good idea" and "Well done") as I wandered by. I think I even made a couple of friends. It's not that hard to change the energy.

La Coste

Posted on | December 3, 2011 | 1 Comment

I've just had a series of inquiries from a french agency that wants to put La Coste banners on my website.  They offer to pay, too. This seems odd since I don't use la Coste, and I doubt if anyone comes to my site to look for clothing. Perhaps it's just the enormous number of hits that come to my site that attracts them? Does anyone have any experience of this kind of thing? I'd dearly love to know what's going on....

Black Friday, Shopping, Christmas

Posted on | November 27, 2011 | No Comments

Thanksgiving managed to hold its place until about 3pm on Thursday, so presumably many people bolted their turkey and pie and left the table scraps to congeal in order to get to the shops on time. I have a theory about this. It's not about the bargains. It's not really about Christmas or Hanukkah for most people. It's about our restless desire to run around and do things, because if we aren't in a state of anxiety or movement we tend to feel we don't really exist.  We can't relax. We have to be doing. What use is the utopia of the ten hour work week if we're all so jazzed up on rushing about that we'll simply yearn for our old addictive behaviors once we're there?

Popularity

Posted on | November 24, 2011 | No Comments

I had to go away for a few days and my laptop decided to refuse to cooperate once I got there.  On my return my laptop decided to behave, and I discover 1412 Spam messages waiting for me (safely in my spam collector, thank goodness). Most of the spam messages are illiterate, and, if they are selling something, it's hard to see what. It's even harder to see why anyone would want to respond to such weird messages. So - what is the point of spam? I can't get my mind round it.

Republican candidates? Fail

Posted on | November 15, 2011 | No Comments

The Republican candidates have shown themselves to be almost alarmingly uniform in their mediocrity. Between Cain the groper who has no grip on US Middle East policy, to Perry's brain freeze, to Bachmann's wackiness we could have hoped for something a bit more exciting, at least in terms of actual ideas.  But no. We saw instead manifest ignorance and personal dullness. Even Romney is just plain boring. So, why worry? For one reason, the health of any democratic institution, like our government, depends upon the quality of debate engaged in by both sides. A government in some respects is only as good as the opposition that questions, probes and helps to make policy. But this isn't happening. The result? We now have no real dialog between the parties  - the Republicans have an uneviable record of stone-walling that has elicited a similar response from the other side. We also have manifestly incompetent opposition candidates. Can't the Republicans do any better? This, after all, is the party that selected Palin, and Dan Quayle. But I won't go on. Remember, these people are getting paid.  By you.

Worth a look

Posted on | November 13, 2011 | No Comments

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Good Bye Signor Berlusconi

Posted on | November 12, 2011 | No Comments

Silvio Berlusconi has finally resigned as Premier of Italy, after a 17 year career that has to rival the emperor Caligula for corruption and lunacy. In Greece the prime minister, George Papandreou has also stepped aside.  The stock markets surge in happy response. Except for one small thing.  The people who put, and kept, those two politicians in place are still working away behind the scenes. What makes anyone think that the new boss will be any better than the old boss, given the dysfunctions of the existing systems? It's a question they're asking in Egypt, and even in Libya, so it's not just idle speculation.  It could be life and death for some people. When will we truly learn to "think different" and then actually do things differently? Surely that day is coming closer. Perhaps it comes down to a simple formula: some people care about people, others care only about power (and money, its cousin). Which side will you be on?

Cultivate Wonder

Posted on | November 9, 2011 | No Comments

When I first came to the United States, 25 years ago, I used to wander around thinking how cool it felt to be living in what felt to me like a movie script. The commute to work was like being in something I used to pay to watch in the movie house. Gradually that sense, child-like as it was, faded. But when the wonder fades we lose something else as well - joy, delight, a sense of the transcendent. We can recapture it any time we like.  It only takes a moment. Sitting waiting for the bus we can, if we choose, see the strange beauty that lurks in so many things, from the clouds scudding across the sky to the gleam on a candy wrapping lying in the gutter. Miraculous, all of it. Notice the wonder. And then be grateful.

Surprised by Beauty

Posted on | November 5, 2011 | No Comments

There's plenty of beauty about. It just seems to keep popping up in unexpected places, usually when I'm already late and a bit frazzled, as if to say - take a look at this, my friend! The thing about beauty, though, is that it opens us up to thinking about other things -- larger, finer, better things and ways of feeling. And when it does that we can feel that we are actually free.  What keeps most people mentally enslaved is the failure to see any beauty at all, and so it is almost impossible for them to imagine any other way of being. So, notice beauty. It has much to tell us.

Radio Interview with Diego Mulligan KSFR FM

Posted on | October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments

On Monday I had a truly lovely time with Diego Mulligan of Santa Fe Radio, who interviewed me about The Path of Synchronicity. Now, the thing that made this very special is that Diego had recently undergone surgery, but was in his hospital bed, hosting the show despite everything. That is truly professional dedication at its best.  And yet it is also far more than this.  Every listener would have noticed that Diego was dedicated to his show, dedicated enough to disregard pain and discomfort, and do what he feels is important.  And I have to say that is profoundly inspiring. In fact Diego did something extraordinary.  He took what may have looked like bad luck and, because of his sense of what truly matters, he turned it into a blessing for everyone. And that is the essence of Synchronicity.  It's not what happens, it's what you do with it that matters. « go back — keep looking »

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