Posted by rhanrott on 10 January 2018, The following is an email sent me years ago from Australia when this blog was first launched. It is very touching: From. joan.garvan@anu.edu.au I am writing today because I was an unwanted child. I am now 55 years old and my mum just passed away a week or …
The Stoic philosopher Seneca disapproved of roof gardens. (How astonishing that even the Romans had roof gardens. They had a talent for urbanism, but surely they weren’t short of space.) Seneca asked: “Is it not living unnaturally to plant orchards on the top of towers, or to have a forest of trees waving in the …
In the South London suburb of Croydon on July 18th two police officers asked a churlish young woman to pick up a fast food wrapper she had dropped on the ground in a shopping mall. She picked it up, then deliberately dropped it again, challenging the police to do something about it. When they protested …
Live justly and obey the laws. Thus you avoid the anxiety of wondering if you will be caught and punished.
56.4% of British employers are concerned that graduates lack leadership skills, literacy, the ability to communicate or manage their own lives, solve problems or motivate themselves. In my opinion leaders are born, not made. (I know whereof I speak, having been on three leadership courses, which only confirmed my firm opinion that I had sparse …
