by grahambower | Sep 5, 2020 | Home Page
Last year my eldest son left the Marines and took on a role as a financial adviser commuting into London every day. Along with many of us he was confined to his home after the Covid lockdown and remarkably this seemed to suit him. He seemed to relax having time with...
by grahambower | Jan 10, 2020 | Home Page
Day 8. I79 kms planned. Strong headwinds and intense heat. I had developed enough strength after a week of riding to hang on to a group of six other riders whose leading sheltered me from the wind. They even offered to slow if the pace got too intense. It was good...
by grahambower | Feb 1, 2019 | Home Page
NLP is the study of the structure of subjective experience. And that can be disturbing!In December I completed a bike tour with my son starting out in Ho Chi Minh and ending in Bangkok (with some aborted stretches due to breaking my wrist the day before we set off)En...
by Sue Knight | May 4, 2016 | Home Page, Uncategorized
“it’s very hard to believe in our own death. Many spiritual practices encourage us to take our own death seriously but it’s amazing how difficult it can be for some to let that hit home. The one thing in life we can count on is incredibly remote for...
by Sue Knight | Apr 30, 2016 | Home Page, Uncategorized
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche Taken today from the book When things fall apart by Pema Chodron (Recalling a manager’s sarcastic reaction to my statement ‘there is no failure only feedback’ that they had had a lot of feedback...
by grahambower | Jan 27, 2016 | Home Page
I’m sitting in my hotel room looking out over the misty horizon and mix of stark white and glass buildings and derelict apartment blocks interspersed with clumps of palm trees. I look down on the streams of the cars below. Hard to believe that these same roads were...