We can eat well, live healthily and happily with less cruelty.
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We Humans
The human condition is a curious one. We kill 200 million animals for our consumption each day. That accounts to 74 billion animals each year. Every one and a half years we kill more animals than human have ever lived in our entire 200,000 year history of existence. But there is a better way. Maybe…
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My favourite weather?
What is your favorite type of weather? I love the weather when it is what I feel to be “just right”. Which isn’t everybody’s cup if tea, I know. What is just right to me? Well, not raining, yet not too sunny. Sunny but with some clouds. The temperatures about 24 or 25 degrees centigrade.…
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Opposite of Mindful
Sometimes I like to think in opposites, or antonyms. It helps me understand more fully, the meaning of something when I can feel I understand what it is not. That may be strange to some people, but then that is who I am. I am a strange person to most people. I wouldn’t say, ‘That’s…
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Who was my most influential teacher?
Who was your most influential teacher? Why? It was when I worked in a different industry to what I am in now, theatre design. And a senior took me under his wing. He taught me so many things in so much detail. Sometimes I wished he wouldn’t go into so much detail. We became great…
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What would I want to do more of each day?
What do you wish you could do more every day? I wish I could spend more time in meditation each day. Just like this…
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What is support?
What is support? When things go badly wrong, some people want to be left alone. Others want someone to just be with, not necessarily to talk to, just to be beside. Some people like to talk all through their problems. And then there’s this from the other side. When shit hits the fan. There are…
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Boundaries
We may sometimes think walls are bad. We want to break them down and open up to freedom for all. And make all things and people equal. However sometimes we need to have boundaries. Places within our lives that people should never cross. And things and people we don’t want to know. And things we…
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Change
Change is always happening. Whether we like it or not. Whether we change with it or not. And it never ends, and never tires. What can we do? We ourselves are changing from one person to another all the time. From good times to bad, from bad to good. Up and down, and round and…
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Ingenuity of humanity
One way of being happy is to admire things that are beautiful. In particular the beauty of ingenuity, and in particular that of humanity. Yes, of course, there’s a lot to not be so proud of. For example, how we as humans have fucked up the earth so much, and continue to do so. However,…
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Friends and support
Do you have friends? Do you have real friends? By that many would define it as people are there for you, not when everything is fine and happy, but when things are really bad and low. That’s right. Those fare-weather friends, they can be great for the fun times. Drinking, games, chit-chat. But there’s a…
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Blogging from the riverside
Google says it might rain later. But it isn’t now. I sit in a wooden bench, on a former cold jetty, in front of a converted power station, looking at the brown river. Foreign voices, a little distance away, come and go. Little fruit flies get on my nerves. The distant rumble of traffic, and…
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