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What Do 90-Somethings Regret Most in life
My preconceptions about older people first began to crumble when one of my congregants, a woman in her 80s, came into my office seeking pastoral care. She had been widowed for several years but the reason for her distress was not the loss of her husband. It was her falling in love with a married…
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Flexitarian diets key to feeding people in a warming world
If the world wants to limit climate change, water scarcity and pollution, then we all need to embrace “flexitarian” diets, say scientists. This means eating mainly plant-based foods, and is one of three key steps towards a sustainable future for all in 2050, they say. Food waste will need to be halved and farming practices…
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New Hope: A New Day
This is the beginning of a new day. I have been given this day to use as I wish. I can waste it, or use it. I can make it a day long to be remembered for its joy, its beauty and its achievements, or it can be filled with stinginess. What I do today…
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Success can’t be defined
I often thought blinking my eyes, What’s success? The materialist things I have achieved or just it’s a state of mind? No matter how far I ran so far, still I see a road ahead! Peoples choose conventional roads, I choose, the road less travelled, Success is the just the melodrama of labour, or the…
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The Poor Can’t Afford Not to Wear Nice Clothes
Why do disadvantaged people spend money on status symbols? For the same reason we all do. Every time there is a national news story about a black shopper getting harassed in a store, there is a predictable backlash to the miscarriage of justice. We tend to move quickly from being outraged that it happened to…
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Disclosure
Young girl drastically perplexed by realityUrgently escapes to a nearby sanctuary As she wanders along its clear water edgesHer tragic love story, roams freely in her mindNothing in her view, but his once tender eyesHow they effortlessly held the faithful promiseOf a delightfully secure and beautiful forever Troubling tears quickly arise in her eyesReality hastily…
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Swami Vivekananda a true youth revolutionary leader
Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk and direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. Vivekananda played a key role in the introduction of Indian yoga and Vedanta philosophy in the West. He made a strong impression at the inaugural World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893 – giving a powerful speech on the underlying unity of world…
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary, Doctor, Author, Guerrilla Leader, Diplomat and Military theorist”! Che Guevara Quotes: If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. “Let the world change you and you can change the world”
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Estonian health care an unique comprehensive data integrated system
Healthcare in Estonia is supervised by the Ministry of Social Affairs and funded by general taxation through the National Health Service. Electronic health record Estonia is a pioneer in the use of Electronic health records because when general practice was moved out of hospitals in 1998 the records were kept in the hospitals, so GPs…
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Bhutan Fostering growth of social businesses
With the choice to focus on Gross National Happiness, Bhutan has chosen to be great instead of big. Through such an approach, the country has become a small giant. As indicated earlier (Kuensel December 8, 2018), this broad policy framework provides tremendous opportunities for leap frogging in terms of Bhutan’s economic development, should the focus…