HOW2 Be

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26/09/2025

Lyric video for "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. (1967) Written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss.TheCatLadyJ: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheCa...

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15/11/2022

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Painting by Tommy Motswai

30/10/2022

It’s hard to avoid the endless stream of, often unreliable, information from the news media, social networks, advertising media and the drug companies. Sensational, violent stories are to be prioritized. There are good news but they not reported because the media credo is, if it bleeds it leads.

These dramatized events feed our pre-disposition for negativity and pessimism. It is no wonder that most people are pessimistic about their lives.

I shall be sharing good news from around the world and will identify each post with .

26/09/2021

“If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now.

Do not pursue what is illusionary, property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night.

Live with a steady superiority over life, don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

It is enough if you don't freeze in the cold and if thirst and hunger don't claw at your insides.

If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you envy?

And why?

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Rub your eyes and purify your heart and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well.

Do not hurt them or scold them, and never part from any of them in anger;

after all, you simply do not know: it may be your last act …”

I’m sure that you have all read this excerpt from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” but I feel that it is important to be reminded from time to time.

09/09/2021

START BY ADMITTING [THAT] FROM CRADLE TO TOMB - IT ISN’T THAT LONG A STAY - from Cabaret (songwriters: John Kander, Fred Ebb, Jean-Claude Cosson)

Once you realise that we are only going to be around for a while you need to ask yourself the following question:

What do I love?
In other words, what brings back feelings of joy?
What would you choose to do for the rest of your life?

Once you have the answer, WRITE IT DOWN WHERE YOU CAN SEE IT EVERY DAY.

Then, EVERY DECISION THAT YOU MAKE FROM THIS MOMENT ON, SHOULD BE IN SERVICE OF THAT.

Joseph Campbell said it like this: “Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.”

07/09/2021

"The secret dream of most of us is not to seek a sense of community but to flee from it.
Our stress comes from being mired in a forced and artificial "civility" when what we really want is to gather those few people we truly care about and then find a mountaintop where we can live like the primitives - fewer in number, less diverse, more honest and less civil."
Diane E Foltz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Letter to Time 24 June 2001)

Photograph: António Bastos