Monday Morning Inspiration #4
If you realise that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren’t afraid of dying, there is nothing you can’t achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the…
Monday Morning Inspiration #3
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama Please share your own inspirational quotes with me. See week 1 of this feature for details.
Monday Morning Inspiration #2
Good prose is like a windowpane. — George Orwell, “Why I Write” To find out what this is all about and how to participate, please see last week’s post.
Monday Morning Inspiration
I often find myself reading something beautiful over the weekend, only to forget it as I get all caught up in the craziness of the week. So I thought I’d start posting some inspirational quotes here each Monday morning, in…
London Catholic Worker no. 25
Uncle Sam does not believe In the unemployed dole, But Uncle Sam does believe in the money lenders dole.
Melting ice shelfs
Do you ever have that experience where something you’ve known for a long time suddenly hits you as it’s never hit you before? That happened to me this weekend. Here’s what set it off. Every few days another huge chunk…
Good company
Just noticed that my secondary school, Dulwich College, added news of my book to its website. Also learned from the site that some very good writers went to Dulwich: Raymond Chandler, PG Wodehouse, CS Forester, Graham Swift and Michael Ondaatje…
Post-racial America
Please, somebody give me a non-racist explanation for this cartoon. Please.