Alan Watts – music and life

Bathtime!

Condoleezza Rice holds bathtime talks with senior undersea commanders. Don’t you wish you were her loofa?
(courtesy The Onion)

Six phases of a project

1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Praise and reward for the non-participants

Trevor Romain

WHO is Trevor Romain and why is he here on my blog? Well, I’ll let him tell his own story because what he has achieved is quite extraordinary. I know Trevor because his parents became wonderful friends of mine when I was about 19, and living in Jo’burg, S.A. Trevor was about six years old then, and was usually in bed when I would drop in to Jac and Carmel’s house in the evening, joining a motley crowd of other young friends to drink coffee, smoke cigarettes (nothing more!) and opine about music, drugs, life, art, and the universe. We were mostly students, and so had a lot to say about nothing much. The fact that Jac and Carmel had this very unusual open-house policy towards us never ceases to amaze me even now when I think about it.

Jerome did it!

JEROME may not thank me for broadcasting this, but he was awarded his degree after three years of beer drinking and many late nights out on the town. He will have B.A. Music (Hons.) after his name after graduating in June at Oxford Brookes. Hooray! And for anybody who doesn’t know: “Message to Bears” (see right column under Blogroll) is Jerome’s musical identity. Click on the link and hear some tunes, plus much more. (This is his MySpace site.)

Gemma’s birthday!

CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes to darling daughter Gemma on the occasion of her 28th birthday, today on Sunday 22nd February. And you know what she did on her birthday? She sat an acupuncture exam in London. And another one yesterday, so she was swatting up like crazy all the way to London. Oh dear! But that does show grit and determination, you have to admit. Loads and loads of love from mom and dad. x x x
PS: And she doesn’t look a day older than 19!!

Anastasia got married!

CAN’T let this pass without comment! Our friend, Anastasia (with an unspellable Moldovian name) got married in Malta today, Sunday 22 Feb and Angelo (from Gharb in Gozo) attended as best man. All of us bent over backwards to try and find her a husband, hell, even Angelo almost offered himself even though he was still married to someone else. She needed help, and eventually help came. Dear, dear Anastasia! We love you and wish you all of the best, and a happy life in Malta, married to whatshisname…

He pissed- and what?

epistemology |iˌpistəˈmäləjē|
noun, Philosophy
the theory of knowledge, esp. with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.
Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Greek epistēmē ‘knowledge,’ from epistasthai ‘know, know how to do.’

Dust if you must

Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it feel better
to paint a picture, write a letter,
bake a cake, or plant a seed,
ponder the difference between want and need?

A Different Perspective

IF YOU woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

IF YOU have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.