Archive for April, 2011
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Commuters agree to be deprived of life for eternal slumber
16 Apr 2011When did we start thinking that it was smart to spend hours of our days neither paying attention or being in and of the moment?
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Don’t brag and don’t whimper!
10 Apr 2011I love a good story of intrepid adventure but it smacks of bragging to tell. What is the ethos where you live? Do you subscribe to "don't brag, don't whimper"?
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Is the universe capable of having your city at its center?
01 Apr 2011Have we really imagined a universe with our own town or city as a centre. What kind of universe has Olney as its center? And what might I find in a universe that has New York, or Mumbai, or Beijing, or Lagos as its center? How can we deny the lens of the place we live? Do we not deny ourselves?
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Is your soul in your city?
01 Apr 2011Why do we feel cynicism that some of Britain's grand old cities have lost their raison d'etre? Surely that is normal. I've learned from poets to think about the soul of a city and if I cannot love it, to move to one that I can.
