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Life’s Jigsaw Puzzle
My wife Rachel usually has a jigsaw puzzle on the go. Visiting family or friends often assist. Yesterday her latest was competed … On a good day my life’s jigsaw puzzle is coming on well. A recognisable picture is forming. New pieces are added, pieces on the side don’t yet fit in, but that’s OK.…
Motorcycles, Sheds, Football, Sparrows…
Robert Pirsig, in ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’, describes two forms of human understanding – the ‘classical’ and the ‘romantic’. A classical understanding sees a world of rules, laws and reason with structure and facts, science and technology; everything’s analysed, controlled and measurable. A romantic understanding sees a world of inspiration, imagination and…
Something You Don’t Learn In School
At our Friday ‘Singing for Health’, we often sing ‘It ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it’ with subsequent verses, ‘It ain’t what you do; it’s the time that you do it’ and, ‘It ain’t what you do; it’s the place that you do it’. In Ella Fitzgerald’s version of the…
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