While there is still time

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Yeats was a prophet. The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the ...

Probably this explains the immaturity we see all around us - perhaps our rites of passage from childhood are way too weak, of too short a d...

"Behavioural economics is a relatively new field, one that draws on aspects of both psychology and economics. It has led me to study e...

Nantes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc3ZAs17uAg http://www.myspace.com/beruit Well it's been a long time, long time now since I've...

Arc by Amy M. Clark My seatmate on the late-night flight could have been my father. I held a biography, but he wanted to talk. The pages cl...

"Do you read a lot?" "A little. Being read to is nicer." She looked at me. "That's over now, isn't it?...

Towel Day is celebrated every 25 May as a tribute by fans of the late author Douglas Adams. On this day, fans carry a towel with them to de...

Beautiful song and video - heard it first in 1997 thanks to our dear friend Claude, a big fan of Brian Eno, who sent me back from France wit...

"It goes beyond just keeping in touch; as many people assert – you don’t have to talk with friends every day in order to remain close. ...

"Toumani Diabaté is one of the most important musicians in Africa. Toumani plays the kora, a harp unique to West Africa, with 21 string...

“…..But with Sparky [Charles Schulz, creator of Snoopy comics], it’s a sense of being abandoned, a fear of abandonment, that he’s talking a...

"The American assumption was that children were happy, and childhood was a golden time; it was adults who had problems with which they ...

My father told me once that when he was about twenty he had a new girlfriend, and once they stopped by the house on the way to somewhere, ju...

".....The only person who had every really asked her questions was her husband, and that was because love is a constant questioning. In...