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Picture parade thirty.
We interrupt your life to bring you a moment of beauty, part two. Last week I published the first set of pictures sent across by John Hurlburt. Here is the second set (but do look at the postscript)....
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Picture parade thirty-six.
The final set of pieces of wisdom. The two previous sets may be linked to via here. Bob D., who sent them to me, will be delighted with the number of comments and ‘Likes’. Fittingly, it’s dear Capt....
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Not of immediate concern!
Milky Way galaxy heading for a collision – in about 4,000,000,000 years! As with huge numbers of others who come to this blog, the night sky has always been of incredible fascination to me. To...
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Trust, truth and community, Pt. One.
Reflections on our present world. Today, and the next two days, I want to offer you three essays under the theme of Trust, truth and community. As is so often the case, there was a series of outwardly...
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I just want to throw up!
Apologies for feeling very dispirited! Normally, there’s always a selection of bits and pieces in my LfD Blog folder from which to construct a new post. But yesterday afternoon as I trawled a number of...
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Running on empty!
Is it just me? It is my usual pattern to awake around 5am, sit upright in bed and browse the latest news on my tablet computer. Jean sleeps on most times next to me. Thus it was last Friday morning...
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The temptation to turn ever inwards.
A run of essays that, collectively, deeply disturb me. My seventieth birthday is fewer than six months away. Indeed, it will be just a little over two weeks after we celebrate the second anniversary of...
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Time waits for no man!
The coming weeks are going to see some repeats! In yesterday’s post, I closed it by saying “More on the theme tomorrow.” What I had in mind was writing about a recent essay that I read; courtesy of...
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Self-defeating habits.
The challenge in being objective. Before I move on to today’s essay, published courtesy of The Automatic Earth, let me ponder about the nature of reason. A quick dip into the dictionary offers this:...
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Can you speak WordPress?
If you can, then there may be a job opportunity for you. Republished from Naked Capitalism. oooo Help Us Find a New WordPress Person Posted on July 13, 2014 by Yves Smith We are looking for a new...
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Kevin Richardson – a repeat posting.
Taking a shortcut and reposting something from 2009 Yesterday, Sunday, was a quiet day. For several good reasons. Firstly, on Saturday evening Jean and I and eleven of our close neighbours enjoyed a...
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Forgive the introspection, Part One
This is not some intellectual exercise; far from it! As often happens, a number of seemingly disconnected articles and reports seem to have provided a common theme. A theme that has previously been...
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We live in interesting times!
The impending ‘banquet of consequences’. The Welcome page of this blog includes this: Dogs ‘teaching’ man to be so successful a hunter enabled evolution, some 20,000 years later, to farming, thence...
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Runaway Antarctica
Do you hear the turnstile about to click! Not so long ago I wrote a series of three posts under the titles of Interconnections One, Interconnections Two and, yes you guessed it😉 , Interconnections...
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Smoke and Mirrors
Let me start with a quotation: I’m not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. James Lovelock The author of that quote is fellow Englishman, albeit a tad older than yours...
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Time marches on!
So we are now at the last day of July! In many ways this has been a strange month in a somewhat strange year! No, more than that! We are at last seeing climate change come to the fore in terms of...
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