Inspiration Unplugged

my body is the place my consciousness inhabits (assuming the two can be separated at all)*.
So far we cannot upload our ‘software’ into new hardware.
So I am mindful that my body needs to remain vital ; ) and viable if today’s statistics about living to 120 is personally feasible.
And more than that, I’d want to
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This Sunday I am celebrating my first anniversary…
without TV  : )
On August 15 last year I unplugged the TV and removed it from our living room and my life.
To be perfectly honest I wasn’t sure what life without TV would be like. I wasn’t sure if I’d feel like I was ‘missing out’ when people
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and meeting new people…
Let me be frank, one of my pet hates is being asked ‘What do you do?’ by someone I’ve just met.
Sometimes I want to answer: ‘Run, when I get asked this question!’
Other times and depending on who asks the question and where I am at the time (and how cheeky I’m feeling)
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I am often struck by the limitations of the prescriptive -strike that- <insert: constrictive> nature of our serial method of spoken language.
As a predominantly visual person, this is not always an easy task, yet necessary if I want my “verbal transmission” to be understood. And since we cannot say more than one word at a
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…and who gets to decide?
In the world of Art, everyone has an opinion. Whether you think their opinion has any authority is another matter entirely!
I belong to an online Art community called RedBubble. And online, as in the real world, somebody always has something to say about whether somebody else’s work is in fact Art.
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How did our eyes become so much bigger than our stomachs? Gastronomically and materially speaking.
As a not-particularly-materialistic-human I am finding myself increasingly uncomfortable with the sheer emphasis on buying and consuming in the western world – Jonesing and supersizing far far beyond our needs to fulfill our out of whack desires.
It’s a sick kind of
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In my work, people often ask me for the secret to a happy-slash-contented life.
I’m still taken aback that they think I have THEIR answer. I don’t of course lol!
But I do have mine. But really it’s different for everybody.
Mine isn’t so much a thing, as a process. A way of being in the world and
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Consider the efforts of two equally ranked bull ants, each pushing with all their might to conquer the other. Neither advancing, neither giving in.
At some point, one must relinquish the fight – lest it go on indefinitely.
Persistence isn’t always constructive.
There are many things in life we persist with beyond good sense – unfulfilling relationships we
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Walking the dog is great for a number of reasons. It’s good for your dog and exercise is good for your health. And it’s also a good icebreaker if the dog-walker is someone you rather fancy.
But I do find strange the practice of collecting up their poo in a plastic bag and then disposing of
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I do.
Recently, I came across a YouTube video showing how plastic is polluting our seas. Amassing along coastlines and ending up in the stomachs of unwitting birds and other animals. And entangling our marine life.
In the media, Plastics Companies are keen to downplay the issue, cloaking it in euphemisms like ‘marine debris’ – Hang on!
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