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A matter of life and death
This is a post about Linny the cat, Atul Gawande, and David Bowie. "Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth." – Eckhart Tolle. "To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure." - Albus Dumbledore,...
February 6th: Alice Day, Waitangi Day, Bob Marley Day
Today is my 55th birthday. It’s also Waitangi Day, the New Zealand holiday that commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Waitangi Day is the closest thing we have to a national holiday. But for a whole bunch of reasons, it’s a day when many New...
All about the bass
The bass player is the unsung heart of a great band. They’re standing there on stage with a huge bass guitar, and an even bigger amplifier, but hardly anybody notices what they are playing. The impact of the bass is almost subliminal. Listening to recorded music, most...