by Laura Studarus: Their desire for avoidance is a predisposition so common that it’s become hard-baked into Finnish culture… I met my now best friend Hanna a few years ago during my first visit to Helsinki, on a coffee date set up out of desperation. Without any acquaintances in the city, I just wanted someone…
by Donna Quesada Schollhammer: During spiritual retreats, we were often asked to begin the day in small circles of about five or six people per circle. While conscious “sharing circles” were the usual way we began these retreats, this particular one was different… we were to share a truth in a confessional manner. More specifically,…
by Mark Savage: Completing a journey 26 years in the making, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You has reached number one in the UK singles chart… Taken from Carey’s album 1994 Merry Christmas, the modern classic was originally held off the top spot by East 17’s Stay Another Day. However, it finally…
The Clearest Images of Jupiter ever taken! This beautifully real image is one of the closest images of Jupiter. Credits: NASA, Juno Spacecraft. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of…
“When an old person dies, a library burns to the ground.” ~African Proverb For most of my life, I thought aging was about bodies slowing down—hair turning white, memory fading, steps getting shorter. But caring for my ninety-six-year-old mother has changed that. I now see something deeper and more painful: the slow erasure of wisdom in…
Russell Brand, broadcaster, comedian and actor, who was baptized in the River Thames last year proclaiming it was an opportunity to leave the past behind, has been charged with two further offences including one count of rape and a charge of sexual assault relating to two women. He has previously pleaded not guilty to five…
This is why “knowledge is power”: those who define what is “knowable” and “known” shape the reality of everyone in the model / system. Oh crikey, is this another boring post trying to make philosophy relevant? No, it’s a post about survival of the fittest, as what we “know” will lead us straight off the cliff…
Chris Rea, English rock and blues singer-songwriter known for his distinctive gravelly voice and slide guitar playing and for Driving Home for Christmas has died. He preferred to see himself as “an ordinary bloke from the grass roots, with a craggy, lived-in face, singing about life”. He was born 4 March 1951 in Middlesborough…
Les Wexner, the American billionaire and former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is back in the spotlight as new emails reveal he lied about his relationship with Epstein, and former Ohio State University athletes seek to subpoena him in an ongoing legal dispute. Jeffrey Epstein’s recently leaked Yahoo emails reveal previously unknown communications between the…
Sharing a winter travel workout for ya. This is a super simple dumbbell circuit workout that you can do anywhere! Hi friends! How are you? I hope that your week is off to a great start! We’re driving back from the Princess _ I’ll share the adventures in Friday Faves – and heading home for…
