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Life and Loss and Building Sandcastles
Posted in Thoughts and musings
Tagged humanity, life, loss, memory, philosophy, sandcastles, thoughts
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Putting the ‘mental’ in being judgmental
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Tagged behaviour, humor, judgment, life, opinion, philosophy, taoism, thoughts
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Why Does It Always Rain On Me?
What do you say when bad things happen to good people?
This past month has been tough for some people I know. I have friends who have lost their jobs. I have some going through personal stuff with decisions to make. I have some with relationship issues. Sometimes we all have that feeling – that weary desire to give up, the anger and frustration, that feeling of “why me?” that prompts us to drink or to smoke or to listen to downbeat music like the Travis song referenced in the title. Or…er… Radiohead. Or whatever it is that people listen to nowadays that’s the equivalent of Radiohead (I’m getting old. Let’s move on.)
So what do you say to the person with bad news? The person with bad luck or heartbreak or tears in their eyes? I don’t know if there’s a right or wrong answer but here’s what I think:
Posted in Thoughts and musings
Tagged advice, bad luck, bad news, depression, life, optimism, thoughts
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It’s not what you know, or where you go…
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged drunk, emotional, family, japan, life, loneliness, thoughts, tired, travel
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Are we all broken?
“Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.”
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged blog, broken, humor, life, missing, personal, taoist, thoughts
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The Grand Unified Theory of Why People Suck

This is how I see your brain and the way it works. Possibly I need help. I’ve definitely watched too much TV.
As I wrote this I was sat on a plane about 10 hours from home. Since my last post I’ve spent 20 hours in the air, 8 on a train, and what feels like 500 sitting around in airports and stations waiting and thinking, so if what follows makes you think ‘wow. this guy has WAY too much time on his hands’ you’d be right.
Anyway, for anyone interesting in my last post – on why people can’t NOT be idiots at a baggage carousel, here it is: my grand unified theory of baggage.
Posted in long ranty posts where I went off on one
Tagged anthropology, awfulness, blog, humor, life, psychology, society, thoughts, travel
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Hell is other people getting their luggage.
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Tagged blog, humor, luggage, musings, stupidity, tao te ching, thoughts, travel
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Some thoughts about Faces
One thing that interests me – and that I’ve been thinking about writing on for a couple of weeks now – is faces: how we recognize them, how we think of them, and how they affect our interaction with the world. Over the past few years I’ve realized I see the world through a ‘resemblometer’: an inbuilt thing whereby I see resemblance in everyone, and I think of new people I meet in terms of who they remind me of.
Posted in Thoughts and musings
Tagged blog, humor, inspiration, life, philosophy, reality, religion, resemblance, thought
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The ‘Tao of Doug’ Guide to a Happier Life
Posted in Posts I'm proud of
Tagged blog, inspiration, life, musings, personal, tao te ching, thoughts, work
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