Answer the call to your life’s adventure…….
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16th, 2009
Remembering the Bob Marley song No Woman No Cry, I thought it was a good place to start my Sugar Blog. There’s a line in the song,
“Everything’s gonna be alright.”
and it repeats eight times, it’s very comforting!
I started a candida albicans diet on Wednesday. Thinking about it for a long time I had even [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2009
Sometime last year my son put me onto a video at http://www.stridegum.com/#/mattsplace/ (the Dancing 2008 link) It’s a guy call Matt Harding who travelled around the world (including Dublin’s St. Stephen’s Green) with his girlfriend doing a silly dance. His girlfriend Melissa Nixon recorded Matt and the people (or monkeys) who joined him. The video lasts [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2009
I’ve been reading Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception (1954). He’s the English author of Brave New World (1932). In the Doors of Perception book he was testing the effects (on himself) of taking a hallucinogenic drug called mescaline.
The thing that most interested me was his reasoning for drug taking. Why do people take drugs, including [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2009
To celebrate the inauguration of a new president in America I started reading Barack Obama’s book Dreams From My Father. In it there’s a story about his father (also named Barack) at college in Hawaii in 1961 or 1962.
One night he, his father-in-law and some friends went out for a drink. There was a white [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2009
During December I spent some time with my nine year-old niece, who seems to attract trouble skillfully! She has inspired me to write the following story. (By the way, she suggested I change Zac’s skin condition as adults might not like it. If you are an adult reading this and you are offended, please accept my apologies. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2008
It’s been a while since I’ve written, I’ve been working on another site about the Hero’s Journey, and I’ve begun writing a course which I will run in the new year. The course is called Access your Calm. It will include skills to allow ease of living while going through life’s challenges.
Naturally, at this time [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2008
One of my friends, Laura, has returned from her second trip this year on the old pilgrim’s way in Spain called the Camino. Laura initially was due to travel with her friends but work commitments meant she had to cancel, so she travelled alone. This was the first time since she got married that she [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2008
It’s a beautiful day outside as I write. It was for days like this that I waited to feel content. Seems strange now but its the truth for me.
At that time I didn’t know that I was getting up and checking the weather and then deciding how I would feel on a given day. I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 15th, 2008
Watched a movie called The Fastest Indian on DVD last week. It’s about a guy called Burt Munro from New Zealand who had a dream to set a land speed record on his Indian motorbike across the salt flats in Utah. It’s based on a true story and set in the 1960’s.
In his sixties himself, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2008
We went to see Juno last week.
It’s a story about a 16 year-old girl, Juno, who gets pregnant, and her journey through the pregnancy and birth and beyond. What’s different about this version of an old story is the comedy, “Yeah, I’m a legend. You know, they call me the cautionary whale.”
It begins with Juno [...]