And so, here in the U.K. we emerge into the light, blinking and marvelling at what we find. Coffee shops and pubs actually open, shops you can walk into and buy things, the village school actually open, groups of children… Read More ›
Philosophy & Psychology
Personal thoughts about things from a philosophical or psychological angle
Surviving Covid #4 Meanwhile elsewhere …
The general carping of U.K. opposition party left wing politicians, plus incessant negativity from leftie infiltrated U.K. media about our government’s handling of the Covid pandemic has now become laughable rather than depressing. In fact I would go so far… Read More ›
Surviving Covid #3 Mental Health From Buddha
Mental health has been seriously eroded all over the world as a result of Covid. Restrictions on freedoms, isolation, mask wearing, vaccine roll outs and general fear have all contributed; it’s been incessant and is still going on especially in… Read More ›
Surviving Covid #2 Mental health from Ancient Greece
Only now, or in recent months, have people started to recognise the impact of Covid on mental health. This is the unseen outcome from restrictions to personal and collective freedoms, from financial stresses, and here in the U.K. from a… Read More ›
Buddha & Me #1 A Personal Beginning
For the first half of my marriage I was a “part time Buddhist”, I suppose I was a BINO, a Buddhist in name only. I had married Champa, Dr C, in 1971 when we were postgraduate students together, both doing… Read More ›
Surviving Covid #1 Mental health ignored?
Mental health has been a significant but much ignored issue of the Covid pandemic. Take a moment to consider the impact on all of us caused by travel restrictions, isolation, social distance rules, closure of pubs, restaurants and cafes, loss… Read More ›
Culture &Wine: #4 A “lost” culture?
I have reached a point in my posts about Wine and Culture where something needs to be clarified; and that is the two way nature of culture and all of the elements in the culture model I have chosen to… Read More ›
