Auschwitz
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On Friday, December 14th, 2012, I visited Auschwitz. I didn’t want to go. I was scared of what I’d see and what I’d imagine and how I’d never be able to forget any of it. But I went because I … Continue reading
Category Archives: conceptual framework
Love is a Better Master than Duty*
The recent vicious rape and assault of a 23 year old physiotherapy student in New Delhi has caused rioting and outrage in India. A policeman injured in the rioting has died and most Indian politicians seem to be distancing themselves from … Continue reading
Starving African Children Save Irish Girl…
I had a very mean grandmother. She was an angry woman who, no doubt, had a lot of pain of her own, but that is immaterial when you are a child and at the receiving end of adult wrath. Anyway, … Continue reading
Fly Like A Butterfly
(N.B. – this is a repost so if you were reading creatingreciprocity in May 2011 you may have read it before – if so – sorry to repeat myself but I still feel the same as I did then about … Continue reading
Playing
We think of art as something esoteric. Something mysterious. Not connected to ordinary matter. But it’s not true. Beautiful music is made from ordinary materials. The leap from the ordinary to the extraordinary is all in application. It’s about how … Continue reading
Do You Feel The Love?
The first step in changing our world is an examination of what actually constitutes reality. We are all products of our environment and as a result we inevitably take many things for granted, believing them to be the natural order of … Continue reading
The Big Picture
It’s all about perspective. Perspective isn’t just something for art class – it’s essential for understanding. It’s indispensabile in our quest for truth. It’s vital for our ongoing safety and security. And most of all it’s absolutely irreplaceable in the pursuit of … Continue reading
An Interesting (or At Least Quite Interesting) Story
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Tell Me About It…
We have no control over many of the things that happen to us in our lives but if we can make sense of what has happened, we will usually construct a narrative to explain it to ourselves. This narrative is … Continue reading
How to Be Happy
One of the problems that naturally occurs when a light is shone on pain and suffering is that those who are looking at this picture are overwhelmed by pity. This might seem like a good outcome – surely if we … Continue reading