A pastor preached from the pulpit the other day that all gay and lesbian people should be put behind an electric fence, keep feeding them so they don’t starve to death, and just wait until they all die out. Problem of homosexuality solved. These days most sermons are taped, at the very least audio alone [...]
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us [...]
From the introduction to Flow by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi: [T]he primary reason it is so difficult to achieve happiness centres on the fact that, contrary to the myths mankind has developed to reassure itself, the universe was not created to answer our needs.
Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. In war it serves that we may poison and mutilate each other. In peace it has made our lives hurried and [...]
I’m totally blown away by some of the stuff I’m learning in preparation for a somewhat patchwork career, lovingly sewn from the best parts of life coaching, stress management and counselling to help stable people (as opposed to people in crisis, who need pure counselling) reach a greater level of contentment with its associated myriad [...]
I get a lot of visitors looking at my dungarees pattern, and for them, here’s an excellent guest post by Joann giving instructions for making your own throw pillows. Throw pillows are a great and cost-effective accessory to any room in your home. They can come in many shapes, sizes, colors and fabrics, and they [...]
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever. – Albert Einstein. That quote captures something really important. One root of hatred is the us-them distinction, like all other motivations for hatred a [...]
When publishing goes wrong…Starring Undead Press.
I’ve been quiet recently, but there’s a reason: I’m studying like mad. However, the tissue box cat is worth an interruption. Penny is Micky’s cat. She’s really quite a smart animal, and very fond of tissue boxes. Ever since she was a baby, she loved sleeping on them, and also loved digging the tissues out [...]
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