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Posted on 04 December 2007
Wise Blogger Phil Andrews said:
Control freak like me
I’m struck by how often I carry on as though the daily routine that my life inhabits at any given time is going to stay the same forever. Of course, it’s changing all the time incrementally, but in such a way as to blind me to the impermanence of my life. ...
Posted on 18 September 2007
Wise Blogger Phil Andrews said:
Everybody's happy nowadays
I've been there and done the guilt-motivated stuff to try and kick-start improvements in my character and life, and it certainly didn't lead to an increase of happiness, just to being more uptight and anxious about slipping up again and despairing about the treadmill I'd set before me....
Posted on 05 September 2007
Wise Blogger Phil Andrews said:
Smile
I watched the latest instalment of Bruce Parry’s ‘Tribe’ series last night (http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/tribes/anuta/), in which he spent 3 weeks with the people of the island of Anuta, only half a mile in diameter in the middle of the Pacific, 70 miles from any other inhabited island – just a dot in the ocean....
Posted on 15 August 2007
Wise Blogger Phil Andrews said:
Always on my mind
Been reading about the commemorations taking place at Graceland to mark 30 years since Elvis shuffled off his white jumpsuit and went to meet his maker. ...
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relationships
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