Richard III Act 1 Scene 3
Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues. -William Shakespeare
Practicing my schtick
I’m working on the publisher’s inner of my book The Mechanics of Happiness today. I’m practicing my ‘what’s your book about?’ shtick. So here goes. Tell me what you think. I was born in the early 60s, the son of a 17 year old Irish immigrant orphan and a violent gangster. My formative years were [...]
Stumbling over the truth
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill … eminently quotable, erudite and immune to the fantasism that afflicts our age.
The man’s a goalkeeper…
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, [...]
When you have once seen the glow of happiness
Albert Camus: When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact [...]
The Mechanics of Happiness
My book, The Mechanics of Happiness – engineering a positive approach to your life is available to pre-order. Details to follow
The Mechanics of Happiness
My book, The Mechanics of Happiness – engineering a positive approach to your life is available to pre-order. Details to follow.
Mumming or the mummer’s art
In my travelling days, some decades ago, I watched a group native fishermen in the South Seas go out to catch fish. The men would leave their village early, just before dawn in their small boats. It was spectacular to see the sun rise and for those of you who have greeted the new day [...]