What yoga teaches us about life

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I think I may have learnt this from one of my favourite yoga teachers. But it might also have come from Patanjali himself.

And if a ten-ton truck...

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All this week, Pa has been in my garden giving my apple tree a short-back-and-sides with bow and chain saw.

Thank you Pa.

Marvin Gaye died 25 years ago. Jade's going to die in a few weeks time. Next our parents. Then us.

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With more than just a nod to this.

A chance meeting with Saul Steinberg in the Dulwich Picture Gallery mausoleum

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Steinberg at The Dulwich Picture Gallery was very good. But Nadler at the Guggenheim is going to be even better.

Bleeding love

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En el día de tu cumpleaños, desearte lo mejor quisiera

[Soundtrack/Download - OK, it's shmaltzy 80s salsa romántica, but still, in my opinion, the best reworking of Happy Birthday on this planet; never failing to squeeze a tear or two out of my shmaltzy, 80s-afflicted eyes]

This one's for Lindsey, who's in hospital on her birthday. Thinking of you, Linds.

Uptight (Everything's Alright)

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Eat your heart out Josef Beuys

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Tina (with a bit of help from Felt Queen Tarnie) took this Prozacville cartoon and turned it into toy-craft magic. You can't really get much more special and heartfelt than this - grazie mille.

Behind the hatred there lies a plundering desire for love

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Happy birthday, John.

Say it in dawg!

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Happy birthday, Ma.

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