Day: September 3, 2018

Keep that holiday feeling

beach coast coconut trees holiday
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/03/sad-summers-over-18-ways-to-keep-the-health-humour-and-happiness-of-your-holiday-alive

 

4 Take a detour on your commute

Emrah Düzel, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London, is studying the health benefits of combining novel experiences with physical activity, particularly in relation to dementia and cognitive decline in old age. Combining physical activity with the exploration of novel environments or novel social interactions – even something as simple as walking around a new city – “stimulates a lot of plasticity in the brain”. Think of this as holiday plasticity, which gets lost when we return to work. But even small changes could help to keep that sensation active and let you capitalise on your “new neurons”. Try walking or cycling to work a different way, or leave home early and break your journey for a walk in a park.

The retail park  gave my mind  a great blow

I saw the parts of town where I don’t go
Old factories and shops too large for us
A retail park is different from Soho

The cars don’t respect Sunday any more
The fumes and dirty air  are our new curse
I saw the parts of town where I don’t go

Is it good for children to explore
Too soon their sexuality diverse?
A retail park should be different from Soho

Am I just an old man who deplores
The way   the adverts  make temptation worse
I saw the parts of town where I don’t go

 

We despise  a tart or an old whore
At least they are embodied,reimbursed
A retail park disturbs more than  Soho

 

Clutching my prescription in my purse
My mind was entertained by writing verse
I saw the places where I rarely go
The retail park  gave my mind  a great blow

Three poems on peace and war

men holding rifle while walking through smoke grenade
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gray battle tank during daytime
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sea clouds waves blue sky
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Three poems on peace and war

 

Poems by Adrian Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell was Red Pepper’s ‘shadow poet laureate’.

To all in the so-called defence industry

Arms trade workers, here’s an early warning

You might wake up tomorrow morning

And find that this is the glorious day

When all your jobs will just melt away

Because the people of the world are going to make sure

There’ll be no more, no more, no more war

So now’s the time to switch your occupation

From dealing in death and desolation

Don’t hang around now you’ve been told

The international murder trade’s about to fold

You won’t have to maim, you won’t have to kill,

You can use your brain and use your skill.

Peace needs workers of all kinds-

Make artificial limbs instead of landmines.

Tricycles instead of tridents,

Violins instead of violence,

Lifeboats, hospitals, medicine, drains,

Food and toys and buses and trains-

Come on, there’s plenty of work to be done

If we’re going to make peace for everyone.

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