Tag: Khalil Gibran

• The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley

  Two steps forward and one step back –isn’t that  always the way with progress? Reward coupled with unintended consequences? The Industrial Revolution with worker exploitation? Nuclear power with the Bomb. Nothing, it seems, comes without a price. Even religion, the great leveller, once established brooks no rivals. Life itself, is a succession of survivors outcompeting […]

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  June 6, 2018

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  evolution, exaptation, exploitation, failures, history, Industrial Revolution, Khalil Gibran, Kristina Killgrove, Labour movement, Life, matches, Mental Floss, Occupational Safety and Health, phossy jaw, progress, Smithsonian Magazine, unintended consequences, white phosphorus, Wikipedia, World Health Organization, X-rays

• We will build a wall…

  It’s humbling to realize that, despite my age, there are still some things I’ve never heard of. Or, is it because of my age…? I suppose I could be forgiven for being unaware –I almost said uninterested– in things that trend nowadays, the inference being that, lacking in statistical significance, those things which appeal to […]

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  March 28, 2018

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  African Monsoon, African Union, Afrrica, boundaries, Burkina Faso, Chris Reiij, climatic oscillations, desertification, drought, edges, Faidherbia albida, Garrity, Global Environmental Facility, Great Green Wall, Great Green Wall Initiative, Holocene epoch, Jessica Tierney, Khalil Gibran, Mohamed Bakaar, Niger, Richard Sr. Barbe Baker, Richard St. Barbe Baker, Science Advances, Serving in Mission, Smithsonian Magazine, sub-Saharan Africa, the Sahel, Tony Rinaudo, trees, trending, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, University of Arizona, World Bank, World Resources Institute

• Eternity Gazing at Itself

  We see what we think others see; we see what the mirror sees. And yet, I prefer to see what Kahlil Gibran sees:  Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. Body image is such a mutable thing. So mood-dependent, so soul-laden, it sometimes seems […]

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  January 30, 2018

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  Alan Watts, BBC news, Beauty, body image, bravery, burns, courage, Jean Cocteau, Khalil Gibran, scars, self, skin grafts

• The Grief that does not Speak

  How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! Like Hamlet, we all recognize this mood: the black dog lying in the noonday sun, the cloud that even hides the moon. It is the tear that defeats the wavering smile –and yet… And yet, there is often something more […]

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  November 23, 2016

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  abuse, Antidepressant medication, depression, doctors, GP, Gynaecology, Hamlet, Khalil Gibran, lens of depression, listening, sadness, Shakespeare, talking, the black dog