Abundance in the midst of poverty

What a lot of great articles there were yesterday – I’ve had a fun time just reading through a fraction of the contributions for Blog Action Day.
Ian McKenzie (Ian’s Messy Desk) offered a nice straightforward list of practical suggestions Blog Action Day: How To Eliminate Poverty as did Ibrahim over at Zen College [...]

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Saving the world – one cone at a time

I wanted to write something deep and worthy today – but reading through all the facts and figures I was caught by one amazing statistic.
According to the poverty facts and stats over at global issues 11 billion US dollars or roughly 6.3 billion ponds a year is spent on ice cream in Europe.
A large percentage [...]

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Starting Blocks

First thing is to put my thoughts into some sort of order. For the past few months I’ve been using google reader to squirrel away articles that I though might be helpful. Looking through them there are several different things I want to change and so I can sort them into approximate piles:

Workspace – building [...]

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Homeward bound

Its been a great 24 hours – even the failure of my connecting bus service to connect, leaving me stranded in Glenrothis on a Sunday for an hour can’t dampen my mood.
For what its worth 15 years is possibly a little long between spending an evening drinking with friends watching dumb movies and eating crisps. [...]

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This dumb habit’s not sustainable …

I’m writing this sitting on a bus heading towards St Andrews, a lot of memories and some very good friends who have made it very clear that I need to stop and unwind and take a breather.
The last 6 months has been long and complicated with a lot of work and personal crisis. However there [...]

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