Trying to live a progressively more sustainable life... ...and remember that "life's too short to wake up with regrets. Love the people who treat you right, forget the people who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. When you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. No one said life was going to be easy..." [Duchess Laura "Shorty" Vuitton]"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." - Charles Bukowski
...anyone who keeps up strong pressure on Gordon Brown and the G8 to keep their promises to Africa......anyone who accepts responsibility for his/her own well-being and happiness, and doesn't expect someone else to "make me happy"......anyone who has many happy memories of London in the sixties without needing alcohol or maryjane to induce them......anyone who thinks people are more important than objects, that being is more important than having...
Quality music in any interesting or provocative style... dullness is the cardinal sin against the musical spirit!
Anything with a decent musical score rather than a medley of assorted favourite album tracks...
Television is primarily an agency of social control: turn the damned thing off and DO something, TALK to somebody, LEARN to play an instrument, DECIDE to change your life, WRITE a poem, BUILD a dry stone wall, PAINT a picture, PLAY a game, JOIN an action group, WORK as a volunteer for a charity, SING in a choir, PLANT a tree... don't forget that you're a long time dead!
Too many to list... Presently slowly exploring some of the writings of Italo Svevo, Eca de Queiroz, William Trevor, and Fay Weldon...
The millions coping on less than a dollar a day... The millions living more than a mile from fresh water... The millions in the above categories who also spend their days caring for loved ones too young, old, or ill to take care of themselves.