Wayne Dyer’s Your Erroneous Zones helped David James crawl out of a black hole

Some twenty odd years ago a friend passed on to me a book by Wayne Dyer called Your Erroneous Zones. He had, in fact, purchased it in error, having misread the title as Your Erogenous Zones! This was my first introduction to Dyer who is known by his fans as the 'father of motivation'.  My disappointed friend hadn’t got beyond the first few pages.  I, on the other hand, couldn’t put the book down.

It's not quite the Amazon rainforest, but Britain's tree canopy is a vital asset. Lucy Siegle on why, and how, we should protect it.

 In the popular imagination, big trees equal trouble. Among the plethora of problems they supposedly cause is the downright irresponsible shedding of fruit (Islington council has taken umbrage at dangerous pear trees) and conkers (Norwich council found the conker-dropping antics of 20 horse chestnuts intolerable), and leaves that make pavements slippery.

Jewelchic shares her new earth epiphanies

After spending several years trying to conceive a baby with the help of fertility treatment, Caroline Gallup and her partner made the difficult decision to remain childless

The fourth sperm test result proved conclusively that my partner, Bruce, had never produced sperm and would never be able to father children.  This was our first devastating blow. 

Sorry to scare you - and we know this is not in keeping with the aim of this ezine - but sometimes it's important to know what dangers are on the horizon.  You might want to call your financial advisor...

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Jazz legend Sonny Rollins says he is still searching for his ultimate performance.

by Geraldine Royds

Born in the rough New York neighbourhood of Harlem in 1930, Rollins believes that, despite the racism and hardship, he was lucky to be born at a time when there was so much music around.

He started playing saxophone when he was a child and by twenty years old was playing with the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.  Rollins idolized Parker and followed him into the abyss of drug abuse. Although Parker couldn’t pull himself out of it, he managed to inspire the younger Rollins to get clean.