Saturday, November 23, 2024

Paring Back the Peer Group

October 27, 2008 by  
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Do you remember when you were growing up, those moments when you felt left out from a peer group or even among particular friends within your own group of friends. This isn’t a sense of ‘belonging’ incognito. No, it’s something quite different though

“Dreams From My Father”

August 4, 2008 by  
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I read Barack Obama’s book “Dreams from My Father” a while ago now. It’s an easy read but raises some very complex issues. Issues of race and inheritance. Issues like the

Treasure Trove

June 1, 2008 by  
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I get a real kick out of finding a treasure among the oddments of a second-hand shop or an Estate sale. It’s the fact that these things have been pre-loved. I love that they have their own story to tell and hearing it can be so humbling.

Sometimes When

June 22, 2007 by  
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Across the road from where I live there’s a local High School. It’s a school attended by smart kids. Kids with high IQ’s and equally high EQ’s. It’s playing fields run adjacent to my street and when the students are in class or finished for the day, it’s quiet, green and