A hole in the ground

19Apr09

Last Monday, I learned something that I had not known before. I learned it – believe it or not – while visiting a shed on a remote island, almost 1000km north of London in the North Sea. 
The shed belonged to an artist living on the island of Bressay, eight minutes or so across the sea [...]

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Tags: Art, Bressay, Shetland, World War II

Who wants to live forever?

08Apr09

It’s official: I have reached middle age. Kind of. 
I say “kind of” because medical diagnoses on the internet are about as reliable as expecting a London bus to arrive on time. Yet, according to www.livingto100.com’s Life Expectancy Calculator – which uses “the most current and carefully researched medical and scientific data” to estimate how old [...]

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Tags: Bahai, immortality, longevity, Shoghi Effendi, tutankhamun