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Being in touch - Getting in gear Website and posts with some connection with #Coaching #Stroud by Andrew Paterson https://cogtogear.co.uk
Profound - and a beautiful piece of writing from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The makers of the 7 Up series set out to prove a point about class. What they achieved is far more profound | Jonathan Freedland
The epic documentary series reveals much about the shifting social attitudes of the last 60 years – and much more about the quiet mystery of human life, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Some profound points in this piece www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Sunsets, disasters, dinners: we now record them all with our phones. But what is that doing to our souls? | Phoebe Greenwood
As a war correspondent, I worked with photographers who said the camera was a buffer between them and reality. It is much the same now as we snap and scroll, says journalist and author Phoebe Greenwoo...
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www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a... “The Beatles are walking into their separate futures, but here McCartney, the most passionate believer in the band, freezes them for ever outside the studios where they’ve worked. He doesn’t want to go anywhere – he’s taken off his shoes.”
Four blokes and a zebra crossing: the banality and beauty of the Beatles’ Abbey Road cover
Much-copied and parodied picture captures dynamic between the individuals and the band with eerie perfection
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No mention in this piece of how AI could help make services more productive, more consistent, safer and more effective. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Millions in England face longer waits for mental health care as NHS providers plan cuts
Exclusive: Seven in 10 survey respondents expect services to be reduced or shut, while more than half anticipate job losses
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I fear the concept of cats loving without an ulterior motive may be foolish optimism
The Independent@the-independent.com · 2mo agoFour science-backed ways to tell if your cat loves you
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Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, and Alan Watts All Discovered the Same 5 Rules for Living—Almost Nobody Lives by Them
A Holocaust survivor, a pioneering psychologist, and a Zen philosopher came from radically different worlds. Yet they all arrived at the same uncomfortable truths about what makes a life worth living
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“We speak about “finding our purpose” as though there is a folded piece of paper hidden somewhere in the back of a drawer with the answer written on it and our job is to find it” @Pperry.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/philippa...
The Purpose and Meaning of Life
Yeah, that old chestnut
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Important to remind ourselves of this regularly. poetrying.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/s...
stubborn ounces :: bonaro w. overstreet
(To One Who Doubts the Worth of Doing Anything If You Can’t Do Everything) You say the Little efforts that I make will do no good: they never will prevail to tip the hovering scale where Just…
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