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Sunday In sleep may we be made new this night. In sleep may we let go of today and release the worries of tomorrow. In sleep may we know you as Soul within our soul as Guide within our dreams as Lover within our longings. In sleep may we be one with you...
Tourists in Canada up against the Wildlife The silly behavior of the ever-growing tourist hordes, especially when they encounter wildlife, is almost beyond belief. Some people will stop their cars in the middle in the highway (pulling over seems to be...
Cycling On the continent the authorities in towns and cities make it easy to cycle and difficult to use a car, by limiting where cars can go. In maastricht for example it would take you less time on a bicycle to get to the city centre from the suburbs...
A man arrived the magistrates court, he was charged with impersonating a policeman. On arrival he was wearing a blue baseball cap with the word 'police' on it; a fluorescent yellow jacket, with 'police' on it, he was carrying a truncheon, a can of CS...
Scotland is quite similar to England. Most of its inhabitants live in cities, suburbs or towns, and have done so since the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century. The rural population has dwindled, and many of those who do live in the countryside...
Austerity, Poverty and starving going hungry for so many Many People have Jobs and work hard and yet go hungry Rents. Taxes Transport health bills to costs just expand leaving many with the decision just to go to the nearest Jail For there beyond the...
Star Trek Jean Luc Piccard The Retirement Years... Join the classic character on his vineyard developing his own wine growing the grapes, developing the terroir of his vineyard, relaxing in the sunshine and reminiscing on once being a bit of Borg during...
Why do it just the same way. Monday with a start to the week. Instead of chocolates not give in surprise to those I meet with some lovely butter Belgium Biscuits instead. Why stuck just in the cog pushing the wheel around Jumping out with the Sharks....
What is Inspiration? Is Inspiration this line between a magical moment and hard Work?. Inspiration after all can be the reward that is valued after many hours of hard work. So the inspiration does not come after a pause of a second but after years of...
Otters and Squirrels. Lions and Tigers are very fierce, but so is another group of mammals which are much smaller. These are otters, weasels, stoats, ferrets amd mink. All of these are hunters and so have strong jaws and sharp teeth. They have lithe bodies,...
Street names The very fact that very few streets have really wonderful names like “Massacre Lane,” or “Poison Avenue,” or “Stench Street” does suggest that when cities were first developing the people naming the streets associated some with interesting...
Crocus We plant our bulbs in September in containers with good drainage. In a 24-inch container I plant either 50 tulips, 30 large-flowered daffodils, 50 small-flowered daffodils, or 100 minor bulbs, like Crocus, Muscari, Scilla, or Iris species or cultivars....
The shared space The shared space was created and designed for residential areas where traffic and cars would be a guest there the shared space layout should clearly indicate that the primary function of the area would be and should be residential. There...
San Francisco did the census of parking spaces on the street and at expensive garages so the city could install demand based meters with parking rates increasing at individual meters during periods of greater demand. What is not revealed in the tiny bit...
Sweden and Finland are the biggest coffee connoisseurs in the world. Pods are the most expensive way to drink coffee not including the eco footprint. I use recently roasted beans a Sage burr grinder and a Gaggia manual espresso machine. I should probably...
Many people enjoy beauty pageants and Lithuania is no exception, but one small Lithuanian village holds a pageant for goats rather than people. All of the animals and their owners made an effort for the occasion, with some goats arriving in beautiful...
It seems reasonable to be glad something has happened or not happened. Depending how it's understood, though, gratefulness makes dubitable assumptions about the existence of free agents with the power to bestow goods upon you, that is, assumptions about...
“playing Russian roulette with their life” if I do not have the flu jab before this winter, doctors are warning because I have Asthma. Deaths from flu and deaths from serious breathing problems both peak during winter. Asthma claimed 1,410 lives in Britain...
A job that provides rising living standards is a thing of the past. Now the route to wealth is through property and pensions You work hard and you stay poor, struggling to pay the bills. In essence nothing has changed since the middle ages. Back then...
free will vs determinism. An age old fight! Bring it on! Research says the wealthy and powerful are far more likely to believe in free will than the poor and powerless. Being determines consciousness perhaps? Regardless of that, the process of constructing...
Mass by Seamus Heaney When all the others were away at MassI was all hers as we peeled potatoes.They broke the silence, let fall one by oneLike solder weeping off the soldering iron:Cold comforts set between us, things to shareGleaming in a bucket of...
Coal mining, hard manual work for men (and children and ponies) replaced by just men and machines, hard work that few would want today but it employed thousands. Followed by retail (Pick & Mix had a different connotation), followed by human robots and...
St. Anthony Zaccaria At the same time that Martin Luther was attacking abuses in the Church, a reformation within the Church was already being attempted. Among the early movers of the Counter-Reformation was Anthony Zaccaria. His mother became a widow...
Helsinki architectural facades. Helsinki’s best known city for its architecture “The White City of the North” thanks to it's neoclassical buildings Glasgow in Scotland is rich in neoclassical buildings It is interesting how both Helsinki and Glasgow as...
Volunteering is important for numerous reasons that benefit both the community and the volunteer themselves. When someone donates a handful of time, the difference made is tremendous and it shapes a community for the better while the experience improves...
