To a greater good

When, as Robin Day once put it, one is in sight of the Departure Lounge, there is plenty of room for reflection. It is time to think more closely of other people’s lives ; particularly the lives of those who made a positive choice about how to live.

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Lives renewed

It’s good news for a British couple who won over £40million on the lottery, but I wonder about how it will change their lives.  Will the change really be for the better (no pun intended)? I have read, at various times, how big winners have vowed that their new riches shall not make them wasteful [...]

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One thing at a time

Socrates once said, “I know nothing, but I have opinions about things.” It comes as a surprise to realize how little we really know for, when we contemplate simple beliefs, there are not many that are guaranteed to be true beyond doubt.

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What larks!

I have never been a great fan of television, but I have come to appreciate the availability of tv recordings ; in fact, I have a growing pile of dvd records which do much to brighten the winter days. But I do wonder sometimes at the antics of the broadcasters. The BBC, especially, seems to be very intent on some kind of political mission designed to change the ways in which we see ourselves.

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What are we?

I was just reading a book in which JRR Tolkien’s name cropped up, together with a few lines of his. Although now long estranged, Man is not lost or wholly changed. Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned, And keeps the rags of lordship he once owned. Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light Through whom [...]

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