The Far East of course has made an art form of preparing, making and serving tea and other drinks. And the exquisite apparatus they use in presentation puts the cheap cups they sell us in our supermarkets here in the UK to shame. I recall my mother saying her father always came in and asked…
Month: August 2010
How To Argue
We are very passionate about what we ‘believe’, even more passionate about things we have never really questioned or been challenged to think about. It is one of the strengths of a good education that it forces us to assess our thoughts and brings us into discussion with people who do not accept what we…
Forgiveness
It has been discussed in the West for generations that forgiveness is an important, if not often an overriding, characteristic of a civilised person. Being a generalised term this includes forgiveness of all people, or any state, for any crime. Which of course begs the description of what ‘crime’ means, it also requires thought about who…
To Times Found
Every generation believes it is the first to have found love. To know what it is like to breath in and taste the modern world. But as my mother taught me long ago, everyone who has ever lived has been ‘a modern’. On the field of emotions and feelings and experiences nothing is, in fact,…
The Unexpected
As a teenager I was sent to boarding school in Devon some aspects of which I actually enjoyed. Many more I did not. As an older boy I recall, either through a reading club or poetry evening, a boy I knew read Robert Louis Stevenson and was amazed by the poem on his gravestone. I…
Apologies
I have been unable to keep the weblog up to date every day because I (master electronics expert I don’t think) burned a hole in my motherboard without the use of a blow torch. I am told this is something of a feat and apart from the fact it could have all caught fire and…
Storytelling
We have told each other stories for as long as there has been an ‘us’ to tell stories and to listen. We create the greatest of all gods and the meanest of all foes and all are derived from what we know and what our sense tell us. And then we bind oursleves to the…
Children
My close friend has now had a second child and one month old she is adorable. And completes a family of a two and a half year old son. I spend happy house with the son going through his books and being shown trucks and figures and lots of cars. I have to build the…
To Be Lost Is Not To Lose
It takes a while to know what we really want in this life. Even those who know early on don’t always get it right, don’t always get on the right path immediately and don’t always find out it was exactly what they wanted. Mostly because we all have to learn about oursleves before we really…