Archive for the ‘Emotional’ Category
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
One Sunday morning after a particular heavy Friday and a light, by my standards Saturday, I got up and went to 'work', hung-over. That's where my family though I was going and I did go to the office, to get away from everything. I took with me a dictation machine, ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
They say that to form a habit or to break one, you need to follow a routine for 21 days. Where do they get this stuff, I don't know? But habits, by their vary nature, are things we do consistently and to break them obviously must not do consistently. The ...
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
Many years ago when I started this blog, I started it as a way to keep track of what I was doing to improve was a rapidly deteriorating life style. I was drinking and smoking way too much and it seemed like I could not stop the downward spiral. I ...
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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
I rarely remember dreams but when I do, they do tend to memorable. Had one just the other day and wondered if it had anything to do with the fact that I feel a bit restricted, hemmed in, if you like, even though it was not stifling, if you know ...
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
'No-one, even those closest to me, knows what I have had to go through to get to where I am now. Why then do you resent what I have?'
A few weeks before my identity theft saga started (see http://notthenews.net) , I told my mother that I could not find it ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
There have been many times in my life that I have been told by various people, even those who claim to be Christians, that I am too kind and too empathetic. That I allow people to take advantage of my weakness and that it will end in tears. To be ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
On the train to work yesterday morning I noticed graffiti stating simply 'Zulu 1875'. Intrigued, a Google search later at work revealed a lot of Zulu references to the period around 1875. Notably though, the Anglo Zulu war is officially regarded as being during 1879, some 6 years after Cetshwayo ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
I tend to use the word karma to describe the calm, peaceful balance. Something that disturbs this state is said to be upsetting my karma. I recently decided to look it up the proper meaning of the word and am horrified to discover that it doesn't mean anything like that ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
This is typical me. I can't believe it been over a month since I wrote in this blog, totally unacceptable! The release of the 1911 Census data took me back to a project I started over 3 years ago and overtaken by events (see Ellis Families of West Riding Yorkshire). ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Saturday was my birthday and I didn't do much in the way of celebrations, in fact I didn't really feel in a celebratory mood. For some reason I woke up with the image of a blue sky, my children laughing and splashing in a clear blue sea, a white sandy ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
"How I invest and spend may touch the lives of people in distant places, whose names I'll never know, whose hopes I never think about,"
There has been some debate in scientific circles about what motivates humans to co-operate. Suggestions from the selfish gene – looking after number one - through ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Scenario: It is 2015, the world is recovering from one of the last great recession but Europe and the USA are not doing so well. So many people were laid off in those years and countries led by China and Asia but including African and South American countries picked up ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
When someone does not deliver to expectations, there is a perception of failure - even if the results are still quite spectacular. President Obama is in danger of being in this category with many people. I suspect there are some, many in Africa, that do not expect too much! I ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
"Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and faith, a transcendent reality, or one or more deities. Spiritual matters are thus those matters regarding humankind's ultimate nature and meaning, not only as material biological organisms, but as beings ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
The 5th of January I wrote and said things where going back to normal. How I lied! If anything Christmas time is the worst time for making you break habits you have tried to hard to maintain. The few days of not following routines are fatal to anything that requires ...
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