An Untrampled High Place

Thoughts on work vs unemployment and feeling on top of the world

2008-07-03T11:23:32Z

When I'm unemployed I eat well, exercise daily, sleep well, and generally feel good and healthy. I couldn't stay in my flat. I kept getting up to go somewhere, anywhere, strolling outside for fresh air and sun. I felt great, full of energy. When...

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Mugabe's African Pals

2008-07-02T07:16:13Z

The world rarely looks to summit meetings of the African Union for statesmanship, and this week's meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheik met those expectations. The Wall Street Journal writes: At least not all of Africa's leaders are ...

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Make your own Sanctuary

2008-06-29T04:46:15Z

This is a spiritual post; nothing to do with "Survivalism". Some things are beyond earthly concerns. From Be Within Stay Above By Tzvi Freeman of Chabad* ... He desires that this body and its earthly impulses will obscure and negate the G-dly l...

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North pole ice cap to dissapear by September

2008-06-27T16:12:22Z

Ice at the North Pole may disappear completely within the next few months for the first time in 20,000 years. "There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole - not water," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Co...

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Vox Hunt: I'd Rather Be...

2008-06-27T14:09:37Z

Show us what you wish you were doing right now.

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Nine Ways to Go Green in the City

2008-06-24T13:52:50Z

In honour of Earth Day and inspired by Raina Kelley's Freegan Experiment 1. I will limit my buying. So no, I won't be splurging on a new headphone amp or headphones for that matter. I just don't need 'em. 2. I’m about to change my diet in a maj...

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Look to Africa to see the future

2008-06-02T03:32:45Z

A United Nations summit on the world’s food crisis has identified 22 countries which are on the verge of catastrophe. As terrible as this all is I am particularly disturbed to see that the vast majority of these countries are in Africa and that t...

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Feng Shui Ghosts

2008-05-31T05:21:12Z

An interesting post on Feng Shui made me think about the issues of the flow of energy and bad spirits in one’s home and I’d like to share the following tale: My first live-in girlfriend and I shared a cottage in the suburbs. One night as we enter...

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Neighbours

2008-05-26T13:03:28Z

Was at the landlord’s lawyer this morning and tried (in vain) to get them to keep the rent the same. Will pay just over $1k a month from June. Also managed to clarify the ongoing saga of my mad downstairs neighbor, Miri. You’ve no idea – Miri the ...

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South Africa, at Rainbow's End

2008-05-25T04:58:00Z

A former South African I was interested to read how just before the race riots stemming from unemployment; poverty; a high cost of living; and an unbelievably high crime rate ravaged the country; that the price of fertiliser in South Africa have g...

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