Is Meditation For You?
It looks staged but it’s not – I took this shot in Sikkim in northern India The healing power of meditation is now firmly established in scientific literature. Countless research […]
Gossip, Rumour and Socrates
Keep this philosophy in mind the next time you either hear or are about to repeat a rumour. In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for […]
The Skinny on Fat
There is a lot of differing advice about whether eating more fat is OK or not. I have a lot of fat in my diet – but it comes mostly […]
Don’t Bottle it Up
A school teacher said to me recently that kids don’t get as angry these days – there are less physical altercations than a few decades ago when he was at school. Instead they […]
We Are Always Three…
I take a bottle of wine and I go drink it amongst the flowers We are always three, counting my shadow and my friend the shimmering moon Happily the moon […]
Life on the Fringe
I have always considered myself as having one foot in the real world and the other in a decidedly stranger world. My friends have mostly been people who live on the fringe. […]
Need Some Music to Release Stress?
Hi all – One of my music albums: Music for Healing Massage is on special at Quiet Earth. I believe that it’s a wonderful album that is not only suitable […]
A Devotion to God
Do I believe in God? To believe in something suggests an uncertainty. I don’t “believe” in my car. It’s right outside – I can see it. I know that it’s […]
A Visit from Mel and Collie
Mel and Collie visited the other day. It was good to see them. They drifted in like a soft shadow moving under the canopy of a forest. They are not always […]
To Understand the World…
This weeks pic brought to you by a laughing kookaburra. I took this one a few weeks ago. I feel that it’s quite beautifully melancholic.
Does the Sun Find it Hard to Shine?
It’s easy to be stupid Everybody sometimes is It’s hard to be clever if you are not Is it always better to do difficult things? Does the sun find it […]
James Wild 
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