Waterstones has a section on Smart Thinking. It says “Think smart with our selection of fantastic eBooks for expanding your mind, inspiring awe and improving your life”. I recently purchased some for the school library and for myself. ****** Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking More on Susan Cain Wikipedia TED talk 2012 *** The Information: A History, a … Continue reading Books on Smart Thinking
*** Pleasure and Pain – J. Krishnamurti Online. Related Lorrimer Moseley Jiddu Krishnamurti Continue reading Why Things Hurt
1. It is my phone. I bought it. I pay for it. I am loaning it to you. Aren’t I the greatest? 2. I will always know the password. 3. If it rings, answer it. It is a phone. Say hello, use your manners. Do not ever ignore a phone call if the screen reads “Mom” or “Dad.” Not ever. read more… Source: Huffington Post Continue reading An iPhone Contract from a mother to her son
There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is ‘I wish I hadn’t worked so hard’. Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative … Continue reading Top five regrets of the dying
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Source: The New Yorker On Saturday, July 2, 2011, a high-society traffic jam descended on the cobblestoned town square of Burford, a village sixty-eight miles northwest of London, not far from the market town of Chipping Norton. Hundreds of chauffeured cars approached a gated stone wall, which opened to a long, circular driveway and the sprawling country house of Elisabeth Murdoch, a prominent television entrepreneur … Continue reading The rise of Elisabeth Murdoch
Source: The New Yorker Colonel James S. Ketchum dreamed of war without killing. He joined the Army in 1956 and left it in 1976, and in that time he did not fight in Vietnam; he did not invade the Bay of Pigs; he did not guard Western Europe with tanks, or help build nuclear launch sites beneath the Arctic ice. Instead, he became the military’s … Continue reading Operation Delirium
Source: The New Yorker When Germany invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939, the date that W. H. Auden used for his famous poem—“I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return”—Poland had commitments in hand from France and Britain to come to its aid if its independence was threatened. In Warsaw, in … Continue reading Life behind the Iron Curtain
Lu Lobello, a troubled veteran of the war in Iraq, and the Kachadoorian family, three of whom were killed by Lobello’s unit in a chaotic Baghdad firefight. Lobello was a Lance Corporal in the Marines; during the invasion of Baghdad, his unit was engaged in a furious gun battle with Iraqi forces in an intersection on Baladiyat street. Three cars containing nine members of the … Continue reading Atonement
Wet hands, apply soap and rub palms together until soap is bubbly Rub each palm over the back of the other hand Rub between your fingers on each hand Rub backs of fingers (interlocked) Rub around each of your thumbs Rub both palms with finger tips then rinse Dry your hands well Source: Global Hygiene Council Related Handwashing Germs are Us Source Hygiene Continue reading How to wash your hands properly
