Deliberate Recreation 1. Is there a 4th dimension in action in our daily lives? I think there is. I know there is yet for most that is uncomfortable thinking that there can be more than what we can see and hear. Yet With the wind in your face you know the wind is there but…

I’m drinking coffee more coffee and thinking… We woke up. The boiler is broke, the apartment is cold so it’s a coffee shop morning. Don’t get me wrong we do this everyday but today is two coffees rather than one because Thursday holds something for me I used to fight. It’s this. Thursday would always…

Gadget Addiction – The Life Inside My Screen By Alan Forrest Smith: May 30th 2016 I’m sitting in a cafe. The sun shines, there’s no wind and I am surrounded by strangers. My darling wife is sitting to my left. She is holding my arm like she always holds my arm. She looks at me…

What Is Truth? Today I was sitting in one of my favourite breakfast places with my darling wife Tamuna. We had coffee as usual. We had a breakfast croissant as always. Then we sat to read. Around ten minutes later a couple we know arrived. When I say we know them we just know them…

I am a man ripped and torn in many directions. My thoughts are not the greater thoughts. My thoughts are thought through yet I have no answer. Liberty and freedom has a price. Liberty creates and environment a structure a culture. The adhering glue of that being the state that runs under sometimes defined and…

Who am I? I am happy Am I a life to be tossed around in the waves of life’s sea until death? I am born I am used I die a death with no life behind me. I am forgotten. Who am I? I want to be the person I was born to be yet…

What Is Wealth and Happiness? noun ˈwelth also ˈweltth a large amount of money and possessions the value of all the property, possessions, and money that someone or something has a large amount or number A man takes the elevator to the 58th floor of an office block tower in New York. Once he gets…

The Age of The Spiritual Narcissi Recently I watched the magician Dynamo on TV walking across the River Thames in London. I did say walking across it as in walking over the water. Just by the houses of parliament there was a small path down to the river itself. Dynamo had to climb over the…

Resolution or REVOLUTION In the movie MONGOL the mongol called Temudjin gets into every kind of possible scrape. He is attacked, almost killed, locked up, held outside in freezing temperatures and more. As the movie goes on Temudjin eventually becomes the leader of all Mongols. Before he does he asks the old wise man or…

If you have 100 people does that mean you have to create 100 meals? Of course the answer is simple – of course you have to create 100 meals. If only 50 meals are created that means 50 people go hungry. Yet if 200 meals are created that means you are going to get a…

Why keep the old when you have the new? Well it never fails to surprise me here in Manchester how every back street, back alley, out of the way avenue or edge of the city route keeps coming up with a new announcement. Like today we have an area near my new apartment named Spinningfields.…

Right now I’m in Starbucks drinking coffee, watching, listening, looking and observing humanity. There’s a guy sat around 5 feet away from me. He is alone, around 35, short black hair, looks like he hasn’t been sleeping,, pretty stocky and ‘feels’ very angry. He keeps going on his phone, speaking to people and almost slamming…

I’ve known Annie for years now. She is a beautiful woman with a lot going for her. Smart, married, kids, great job and drop-dead gorgeous. Like I said, she has a lot going for her. Four years ago I saw changes in her that were to redefine her life forever. She had read about how…