Welcome to the ezine produced by SGI Buddhists that prompts the positive, kindles the constructive, highlights the hopeful and leaves you feeling - well, up!
Published on Thursday, 18 December 2008 19:00 | 
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On 23 October 1984 the BBC broadcast a news report of the famine devastating Ethiopia. One of the most powerful and enduring images was of a young woman, surrounded by 85,000 starving people, with the terrible task of choosing which children went to a feeding centre and which were too far gone to be saved.
Claire Bertschinger, an International Red Cross nurse, ran two feeding centres and was the central figure of Michael Buerk’s report. In a now famous piece of footage, he asked, “Does that do anything to you?’ 'What do you expect?’ she replied. ‘It breaks my heart.’
by Vida Adamoli
Published on Monday, 15 December 2008 19:00 | | |
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This is Greg Braden, who has some well articulated ideas about what makes things tick. The videos are worth a watch and although the science is a little thin, he does get the concepts across very well.
For people who do real science and need more information about some of the concepts that Greg mentions but doesn't go into or credit the originators, you might want to visit the links below.
For Greg's story CLICK HERE.
Published on Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:00 | |
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And now watch Undoing a Woman From the Outside In...
Published on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 00:00 | | |
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Plus some ideas for easy (and green) last-minute presents
By Julia Stephenson
I live on the King’s Road in a flat high in the rooftops next to Peter Jones. My study overlooks the haberdashery department so every Christmas I have a bird’s eye view of the festive furore and tinsel tussling within.
Peering down into the congested streets below I wince at the scurrying female beasts of burden laden down beneath tons of Christmas shopping as they dodge livid 4 x 4 drivers, furious OAP’s driving tiny hatchbacks and angry white van men making Christmas deliveries.
I can’t help but notice that while most of the women in festive meltdown (and it is only women) look and sound just like me — even down to the precise shade of Harbour Club blonde — I am not of them at all.
Published on Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:00 | | |
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When he was just 17, Ben Way made a life-changing business deal worth £25m, making him one of Britain’s youngest
self-made millionaires.
Six
years later, venture capitalists pulled the plug on his company and he lost
everything - although he has since rebuilt his fortune.
Ben's
childhood was blighted by dyslexia. A teacher told him he would never read or write
and that he would never make anything of himself. 'I was seven years old. Those
words made me want to give up completely. They really haunted me for years to
come,' he recalls.
Published on Friday, 12 December 2008 19:00 | |
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It’s that time of year
again! Diane Southam looks at the pros and cons of Christmas – and how
to survive it
Published on Wednesday, 03 December 2008 19:00 | | |
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Recently in my local library I came across a refreshing memoir, Loose Girl, by an American called Kerry Cohen. I read it in one sitting, writes Clea Myers.
The true story about her promiscuity was unsettling yet strangely empowering, as the narrator finally recognises that her desperate attempts at intimacy, via boys and sex, are driving her further into isolation and self-hatred.
No quick fix solutions or trips to rehab, but a burgeoning awareness that a healthy self-identity can emerge through the most unlikely of channels.