Live life to the max

Live life to the max With your mind heart and soul wide open .( In honor of Hannah)

"There are only 2 ways to live " so said Albert Einstein .One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is though everything is a miracle"

This weeks panic over the LHC reminds me of the way so many get confused between what we know and what we don't . What we should fear and what we shouldn't .
Physicists aren't worried. They know that they are building on the relativity work of Einstein and while they don't know very much, they know enough to think - what an amazing , predictable ( in parts) and mysteriuos creation we live in .

Where does the fear come from? Jung said it well The evil is in man himself .
Don't be confused - find out what the fear is and face it . .
Think about how England survived WW2 . Watch
CHURCHILLS WAR or THE BATTLE OF BRITIAN available on PAYLESS and reflect on what was said and what miracles happened and could have happened - you may need to read some of what was written by people such as Bonhoeffer and Chesterton as well ?

Need a job?

Tell the truth. as John Hartigan ( Head of News Limited ) said on ABCTV sunday night - it is one of the best jobs "being a journo".
You can practice now, wherever you are and whatever your circumstances. Get good at it and you will be surprised at what doors it can open for you ( Job 38:10)
Did you see Tom Browns school days( also on ABCTV)- another great example where Hughes tells the truth about what really can go on in the hearts and minds of men - and it changes the world bring out the phycologists? (the old wise guard of fearfilled fools "in charge" of the school? --------or just act alone and with conviction !

Explore- stand back and learn

One of the best ways to get some perpective on your life is to watch others . While he's by no means a role model, Mr Bean's behavior in his latest movie is outstanding and therefore . may i suggest, highly educational and really funny .
MR BEAN ON HOLIDAYS says soemthing profound about our shared temptations and trials . Go see it !

Find something good in whats OLD

All of us , when we were teenagers, questioned the wisdom of our parents .Just as well we test them , because its not helpful to assume they are always right .However teenagers, for all their confidence do not know very much - they just think they do . None of never get everything right, so should dad be allowed to decide ?
As you get older, find some older people whom you respect and can get to know, so you can avoid the PITS- or get out of em .
EG One is the temptation to go for NEW quick fix fads rather than building on OLD science .The short way vs the long way. Many of us KNOW , if we are to be effective in our lifetime, we have to build on the old . While it may not make sense for a start , when you are offered work becuase you do it well the first time you'll better understand the way to prosper. see http://slowfix.blogspot.com

Meet someone NEW

Are YOU battling to live with OTHERS unfair or imposed expectations? Battling family expectations—Beatrix's parents haven't the slightest idea why the shy girl keeps frittering about with her drawings and won't just settle into a proper marriage, but ... you should meet her

The good that I would

I don't do .It's true ! Its not so bad to admit this because its true for each and every one of us - most days .But don't be surprised if you don't hear much talk about it publicly ( tis not something one does, especially because we keep doing it ) We are incomplete and broken persons needing help and asking for help is never easy for any of us ) .Sorry is not a bad word but a very necessary word .
Why worry then?
To not admit to this reality means you can say one thing and yet do another without realising it.You can project your guilt onto others, bringing us all down instead of resolving together to face reality and "get over it" . The truth can set you free from the blame game .

G20 If small is beautiful, what ever happened to G7

Some questions for those meeting in Melbourne at the G20 this week ? Where do the small and powerful fit in when the big players seek to become even more influential with each other.
Perhaps , in getting together as big players they should'nt pretend they can easily deal with the problems of the small players ? The externalities of poverty and patronige driving people to war?
What for example, is the real focus of the keynote issue, aid or poverty alleviation; patronige or political power: aid or trade . The need for unity of purpose must not cloud out need for accepting the diversity of economic assemblages .

Will this G20 be the first to suggest that economic stability should be seen as more like symbiosis amongst ecosystems rather than a facilitation factory with finely tuned settings ?
Economic prosperity and profit gives power , yet the rural poor around the world are , on the criteria of profit and prosperity, powerless.( they get taxation concessions, even in Australia)
That sort of puts them in a industrial economic band all their own = a sort of G777
.Lets hope the discussion around the edges is robust and far reaching on the subject of eco diversity because , for far too often the industry of agriculture is subject to lumping in with all other industries--- when it is clearly a special case requiring ecological as well as economic considerations .

Bono

Wasn't he "oh so good" on Denton's Enough Rope. How do we translate all that ambition for sound change in Africa and the Middle East to action ? One way I think is is to study the environment For those whom science is too much , how about you encourage governments ( by voting for someone who says so ) to ensure
--"the Right" don't keep turning agriculture into a clone of all industry ( where concrete and steel demolition don't matter)

Watch a good movie and learn how important your character( not your money , or your looks or your talents) is in the ever present tough situations of everyones' life . , see My Girl Friday

Another inspiring suggestion for people of all ages from barbara

...Help other people. Stop thinking about your problems and look outside yourself. If you can get past the "It's all about me" stage, then you'll really understand the power of networks. I've discovered that helping others connect has been remarkably beneficial for me.

Are you an artist, or are you not sure you can be one ? Do you want to become one ? Here's a great line from a blogger who just engaged 500,000 callers ( since she started ) this week. She could make a lot of money but then .... read what she says June10th at the important qualifications !

Conspiracy or Cockup It can be very hard to seperate the two eh?Not sure which one tempts you ? watch the protocols story by Marc levin . I'd vote for the lateral
Cockup and then a conspiracy to cover it up .And i'm not sure cockup is a tough enough word.

Dancing with the Stars has provided the young audience of Australia with a very important lesson . Like a mirror to their own excuses the children of Australia watched grown men and women capitulate to some force of evil not identified and not rational . These adults agreed together to support a story about Todd and co being not good enough to win . But honest brokers and children knew otherwise.

The mirror on the screen said it all - That life is not always fair and that even judges can rationalise, rebel and be blind when it suits them .
Young people --Worry not about what you see in all the finery, but what you don't see working its way to the surface occassionally.

Good boy Lester Brown . Lots of greens ideas are just that ---ideas - loose and dangerous if applied carelessly .
If you want to study someone who studies the earth AND its economic principles, listen to Lester Brown . he's got some well thought through actions to consider to make our world a better place and click on

Recognise projection as one of the most serious diseases of the human mind. Train your mind and body to avoid doing it . when we get into projector mode we say " The problem is not mine - its yours" .

Young and Bored? My suggestion . Read or watch something great . Like Pride and Predjudice Why you say? - because whatever you do with your life, you wan't to make the most of it .Y or N ? You don't need lots of money or fame to do that - you come from a family and you want that to work for you as you get older too -eh? . Its your top priority?!
That means,amongst other things, avoiding mistakes other make . You are not that dumb you reckon ? Sorry to have to say this but going on averages , maybe you are living on pride and predjudice
Take this one for eaxmple . Your parents are dumb and don't know much This story talks about teenagers dealing with this reality and growing to love both them and others-click below to find out more.

There is so much rubbish around . Avoid it and bookmark http://worthwatching. blogspot.com

HOMES rather than SHEDS to go to.

Young Jason asks nicely whether the governmnet could do something , but will his reasonable request be heard ( Brisbane line - land allocation )
There was a time, not so long ago ,when leaders of both parties supported his great idea. And a great idea it was because it kept the price of homes down and the market away from meddling too much with this basic need we all have .Kept us from easily falling for that old popular myth that our houses were the key to our economic wealth.

Even better than giving young people a bit of commonwealth land away from where the work was , they studied where best to put houses and they paid for it - not a sin as they spend a lot on other things and then sold houses and kept aeye on the market - esp so homes didn't become mere clones of that secondrate extract of economia called the shed.

But they don't like to interfere in the market like they used to then, so, until they stop sleeping to the chant we make a bit of noise, and wait for them to wake up.
Our homes, despite being places where we learn economia are too good and too complex to house the crude, if essential, subdivisions we called sheds. Now that sheds and their simple lines and substance have become the focus, families feel the stress . yes talk about it more

The G8 this week removes "urgent" from its summary. A good thing? Yes

Urgent is an important imperative, but not in every ecosystem and certainly not after the problem has hit the press. In the big picture, hasty late action is counterproductive as it acts only when a problem is biologically too fast growing and too big to stop. It’s fine in industry, but no use when real world limits apply as they do within the real boundaries of economic activity in communities. There are also easier and more effective ways to avoid “just in time” action and its unfortunate birth child -unsustainable growth.

Urgent encourages the wrong choice in our dealings with algophobia. By choosing short term gain our children will have to deal with long term pain. The slower route is possible and achievable - a choice that works. Quick is the fear word grabbed from industrial mechanistic world views that eventually undermines sustainability in ideas and action.

The western world has reversed most of the dangerous processes it has set up, mainly in ignorance and quick fix, in their expanding territories. The need for the future is to avoid the quick fix (http://quickfiz.blogspot.com ) mentality of modern industry imperatives and ensure our children have a more concrete, unchanging view of how the bigger picture in the real world could change for the better over the next two generations .Only that way will they have some hope of getting there in the long term.

Are the Bad boys providing a lead ? Safin has made the point that the lifestyle promoted as the norm (where most kids have tried it by the time they are 16- ABC afternoon program last week)is not really the ultimate .

Is Safin the leader and is Hewitt following? Where oh where are the media on this? maybe there are millions of new milleneum young people who only want what their parents had ( a more stable view of relationships and relationship building)

Making Poverty History If a down to earth African leader believes it can happen -why can't the so a called "powerful west".
Maybe intellectually and morally we are poorer than we think .
Don't you wish your countrymen too ,would go back to their roots to find the source of true treasure!
Good on you brits!