1. Remember how much lip service was paid to mental health in the last couple of years? It supposedly had ‘parity’ with physical health in government thinking, despite being woefully underfunded. Well, the past month has blown all those platitudes out of the water. As long as we can keep people alive, the mental wellbeingContinue reading “Two Views on UK Lockdown”
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Connecting With Wisdom
In the coming weeks and months, if you are in contact with elderly friends or relatives, ask them about times of crisis they have endured and how they dealt with the situation. Many of our living elders came through WW2, a time when entire streets were destroyed in a night, with death arriving regularly andContinue reading “Connecting With Wisdom”
REM – Compassionate For the People
I have been checking out a lot of REM videos on youtube lately. A comment posted on one clip said that they were one of the most compassionate bands of their era, or any. This is a perceptive comment, a rarely appreciated quality and the secret of REM’s magic. In his songs and his image,Continue reading “REM – Compassionate For the People”
Tom George 