I’ve been reading the book On Beauty by Zadie Smith and am in the midst of a conflict between the married couple who are central to the plot. They are fighting because he had an affair and he says ‘It’s true that men“ they respond to beauty…. it doesn’t end for them, this. this concern with beauty as a physical actuality in the world and that’s clearly imprisoning and it infantilizes. but it’s true and.. I don’t know how else to explain what 

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Saw an interesting movie last nite, ‘The Lake House’, with Sandra Bullock & Keanu Reeves. It used a fascinating concept where the two people are separated by two years and connect via a ‘time warp’ letter box, the lake house and a scrawny dog called Jack. Time & timing in relationship was obviously the central theme?

The Lake House

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“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” HH Dalai Lama

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.” HH Dalai Lama

HH the Dalai Lama

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The planet Venus appears to be going backwards in the sky starting on 28th July, 2007 and turning direct again on 9th September, 2007.

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