Strong, perhaps, but I would say opinions borne of reflexions destilled drawn from several decades of critical observation (decades yes, but I do not have twenty years over you), in the course of which I have seen too much deliberate harm gratuitously inflicted on others but still haven't learned what pleasure comes from making others miserable. I

Aeschylus wrote: "Call not man happy, until he passes beyond life's final border, free from pain."

My view is less focused on the self:... read more

A Birth Certificate shows that we were born,
A Death Certificate shows that we died,
Pictures show that we lived!

Have a seat . . . Relax . . . And read this slowly.

I Believe...
That just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue,
it doesn't mean they do love each other.

I Believe...
That we don't have to change friends
if we understand that friends change.

I Believe...
That no matter how... read more

“As I focus on Diligent Joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once—that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-‘n’-Stalin picture, but also on the smallest personal level. Even in my own life, I can see exactly where my episodes of unhappiness have brought suffering or distress or (at the very least) inconvenience to those around me. The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preser... read more