Dark Matter

This is a favourite sculpture. It is by sculptor Cornelia Parker and is called Dark Matter. I like it in the way a child is just wide eyed about outer space. I don't have to think or analyse it much, it just gives a feeling of wow! dark matter!. Amazing what one can do with getting hold of a shed, calling in the army to blow it up then hanging up the pieces and putting a light bulb in the middle.

Turkish Swimming Cat

On GMTV today they mentioned a cat called a Turkish Swimming Cat. Apparently it is a breed of cat that likes water and can swim. It also has water resistant fur. The woman guest (who I believe was Andrew Lloyd Webber's daughter) said they also have webbed feet. Not sure of the last bit but didn't know such cats exist. Just shows it takes all sorts to make a world.

Trusting or Suspicious

Years ago I undertook some psychotherapy. During this a therapist said that they thought I was suspicious of people. There was the view sometimes held by some therapists in the organisation that provided the therapy that sometimes others can see us more clearly than we can ourselves. Also that we need insight into ourselves in order to progress. To this I thought to myself well I had better believe the therapist then. Of course they are the experts. After all I want to grow and become better in myself etc. So I went around believing them. I trusted their view that I was none trusting. After I finished with the therapist I had some less frequent follow up therapy from another therapist. I told this therapist the same things about myself. This other therapist told me that they thought I was too trusting of people. This caused me to think. Obviously I am being told completely different things. I wanted to check this out so I decided to ask my Friends what they thought. Starting with my girlfriend she told me that she thought I was too trusting of people. Some other Friends said that I was more on the trusting side.

Oh well what does this mean "so much for therapists" well maybe I wouldn't go that far but but it shows how even experts can see things differently even within their own field. Perhaps I should have listened more to myself rather than trust a therapists version of who I was. But hey wouldn't it just put them all out of work if we all did that.

The Poor Must Get Up and Say Yoh!! I Can

While helping out a friend with a Fair Trade stall at the Local University we were approached by a guy with a book. Yes folks a guy with a book! He looked the stall over and then said that he was taking business studies and that in his view all that the poor people in other countries need is to learn to do what was in the book he had. He held up a book on positive thinking. It seems that according to him it is all in the mind then. There are no problems of the lack of available economic structure to create wealth. No exploitation by massive corportations. No unfair trade tarrifs. No corrupt governments or debt to the west. No problems of lack of education. Yup! all they need to do is think themselves out of poverty. Maybe in the best American motivational "I have an autonomous self, I can, it will" is sure to bring it all into manifestation.

Yep Sure!! I of course am confident that the above is not what is taught on business studies courses eeerrr I hope!!!