When things become FUBAR

When things become FUBAR

Let me spoil a great film for you!Riders of Justice is a pretty violent exploration of the nature of “Events” and how they play out in our lives, but also an attempt to make sense of meaningless tragedy.The film is about a Danish family that’s ripped apart by the...
What’s the meaning… What’s the meaning of life?

What’s the meaning… What’s the meaning of life?

My thanks to Soul II Soul’s “Get a Life” for the song lyric that inspired this essay.. It would seem that we’ve been asking this question since the dawn of time..Jazzie B, the co-writer of the song has the following advice.. “elevate your mind, free your soul…”But...
On the Interment of my Mother

On the Interment of my Mother

I owe a huge debt of gratitude and love to my mother and father.My lovely mother quietly passed away at the beginning of this year.She felt her time had come and wanted to tarry no more.She’d outlived two husbands and being a person whose life purpose seemed to be as...
Depersonalisation

Depersonalisation

As the old joke goes, when you finally declare that “you are god!” – in the Western world the men in white coats start to take out their straight-jackets, when you say this in the East, people will say to you “So glad you finally got it!” When one’s entire being is...
Good relationships take lots of energy!

Good relationships take lots of energy!

Good relationships take lots of energy.Stay healthy to keep your relationships on track. Exhaustion makes it difficult to love oneself, let alone others! There’s a baseline to health, below which it’s very difficult to spare any energy for other people.Illness and low...