Happiness = …

This is the equation for happiness: What does all that jibberish mean?  Basically that expectations determine happiness.  That is why looking over the garden hedge at the grass on  the other side (the lawn that you can’t have because to belongs to someone else) is a sure way to be unhappy.  And why appreciating the …
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Whoops! A big picture story.

A story about the search for truth, the meaning of life and the answer to everything.  Finally an edition that is readable.  It might have a few typos which will be removed as we find them, but the important bits read well enough. Enjoy free chapters on-line: The Meaning of Life Clarifying the Big Picture …
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We get what we choose.

That’s a bit like “we get what we want” except that often we don’t realise what we are choosing. We grab the sweet, but ignore the consequences of rotting teeth, obesity and diabetes. We put the pedal to the metal and our foot to the floor, but ignore the consequence of pollution, collision and climate …
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Babies in a bucket

From CNN Faces of the world: National  Geographic photographer’s amazing portraits Babies in a bucket, in a tent city after the earthquake, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2010 “When the quake hit on January 12, 2010, I had been staying in a decadent US$10,000 a night villa while photographing the stunning Amanyara on Turks and Caicos Island. One …
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If you are only one person, …

Well you are. So imagine how life would be if you had to do everything for yourself. Not just the easy stuff, like getting out of bed and getting dressed.  But also stuff like growing and cooking your own food, building your own house, making the tools to do it, baking the bricks, smelting the …
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It’s not easy to do the right thing.

So, I must confess that for three years we let a field to a neighbour for use in conventional tillage farming.  Previously, that field had been managed organically for over a decade, but we found we could not use it and the rent money would be welcome.  Now, we’re regalvanised to protect the environment and …
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Evil prevails when good people do nothing

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”  is attributed to Edmund Burke, an Irish political philosopher, Whig politician and statesman (1729-1797).  Searches have failed to find this exact quotation in Burke’s writings, but these Burke quotes seem appropriate. “But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? …
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Outlook 2013: If you haven’t found the answer yet, read this.

If you see some question about what the future holds the ideas outlined in the WFS Outlook 2013 will stimulate.  Even if you have found teh answer it will still feed you brain.  Enjoy it. http://www.wfs.org/futurist/november-december-2012-vol-46-no-6/outlook-2013   Outlook 2013 INTRODUCTION Human actions could become more accurately predictable, thanks to neuroscience. Nano-sized robots will deliver cancer-fighting …
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Tick the box. Or think.

I just had an interesting conversation with my brother. He is a senior compliance specialist who has worked with the biggest global commercial banks.  He explained the extraordinary cost and consequences of poor administration of the legal framework of the finance and securities industry in the EU. I was amazed.  His perspective from the City …
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