Harold Wilson was a very wise man
he had many ideas and good plans
but when he resigned
it was a very bad time.
Let’s all do as much as we
Expectations rise like steam from hot pan
Don’t keep, your pans boiling too long I
Like too many rhymes
are deadly at times
the priest from the lectern is flung
https://mymind.org/why-is-acceptance-important-for-our-mental-health
One reason why acceptance can be so important is that it is very hard to do anything constructive about something when we don’t accept it. A degree of acceptance can be an important requirement for real engagement and for change to happen.
For example, let’s say two friends are driving to a hurling match. Suddenly the car hits a bump in the road and gets a flat type. The passenger glances at the driver and anxiously says, “hey, looks like we have a flat. Looks like we have a problem”. Now imagine that the driver, without missing a beat, speeds up and says, “no we haven’t!”
Now these people have two problems: a flat tyre and a driver who won’t, or can’t, accept the situation. This lack of acceptance in this situation is going to make a bad situation worse. Therefore, acceptance sets the groundwork for getting one’s bearings, rolling up one’s sleeves, assessing the situation and ultimately
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Government and trade unionism to transform society.
The early Fabians’ commitment to non-violent political change was underlined by the role the Fabian Society played in parliamentary politics. Having initially sought to influence the Liberal and Conservative parties, the Fabians participated in the foundation of the Labour party in 1900. The society has been affiliated to Labour throughout the party’s history and is the only original founder that remains affiliated in unchanged form.
None of the early figures in the society were more significant than Beatrice and Sidney Webb in developing the ideas that would come to characterise Fabian thinking and in developing the thorough research methodology that remains a feature of the Society to the present day. Both prodigious authors
various ways in which you consciously or unconsciously try to increase your own sense of agency through your relationship. Feeling needed and wanted by a partner can create a sense of power and control, but if the relationship fails, your old feelings of being ineffectual and weak will return. The nurturing, support, and resourcefulness of an overly empathic white knight initially enhance her feelings of agency, but such acts ultimately render her dependent on her partner’s response in order to maintain her sense of being an effective person. The tarnished and terrorizing/terrified white knight may control his partner; however, his sense of agency depends on his maintaining that control.
https://www.henryford.com/blog/2020/08/the-difference-between-worry-and-anxiety
How to Draw in Six Steps https://nyti.ms/2SIc5Mm
Almost any object can be broken down into shapes: a circle, a square, a rectangle. A mug is two ovals connected by vertical curved lines. The handle is a large half circle with a smaller half circle inside of it.
Horses, for instance, are notoriously hard to draw. “The head of a horse is generally rectangular,” said Tony DiTerlizzi, a best-selling children’s book author and illustrator. The body is an oval, and the legs can be sketched as straight lines. The human face is a sphere, he said, and an antique car is a bunch of boxes.
Stress, Worry and Anxiety Are All Different. How Do You Cope With Each? https://nyti.ms/2wKWSlF
Combat Your Anxiety, One Step at a Time https://nyti.ms/2Djg4WA
if you feel anxiety while watching the news, you probably don’t need to do anything about that (except maybe turn off the TV, go for a walk or take some deep breaths). But if your anxiety is interfering with your concentration, ability to focus or sleep — and, according to the DSM-5, if you have worry for more days than not for at least six months — that points to a disorder and you should seek a professional diagnostic assessment. But, Dr. Simon said, “For anyone who has some nervousness, anxiety or stress, there are many coping strategies you can try on your own.”
She added that, even at extreme levels, “anxiety is uncomfortable but generally does not result in death.” (Even if it doesn’t feel like that at the time.)
She said she can’t die until she’s learnt algebra. But how far would she go
Quadratic equations, geometric progressions, groups rings and fields
She might want to live forever
I went to bed with Eamonn.But she wasn’t
I lay down with a lion.What a lamb
I went to the Ladies.What a gent!
I went to an all female college but I’m not
I thought I was going mad but it’s only paranoia.It’s normal
I sometimes say to myself, are we still here? Then once I heard a voice saying,No!
I bought a book.It’s in invisible ink.What a relief!
The hairdresser said, is it you, again? I said , no, it’s me.
I went to the coffee shop but it was full of foreigners.People from Blackburn,Worcester,Bath,Wells and Bristol.Send them back, London is full.
As for the Irish, send us back free and then I shall kiss the Blarney Stone
What do you mean,I’m a foreigner? I’m a Viking.So behave
My neighbour is from Cardiff in South Wales
Sally thinks I’m very young
I must get married with a song
Her interest makes my heart fall down and wail.
But when I dream deep in my sleep
I’ll meet a man and he will never fail
My fantasies will make men weak
Their knees are knocking like birds beaks
Now there’s thunder lightning fog and acid hail
I had a doctor from the Gaza strip
The constant warfare made this doctor quit
But when he came to the UK
They said Oh refugees can’t play
So then he told them they should watch their lip.
But is he still a refugee
Surfing words where ere they be ?
He could pay his way if he could work
Eating shingle from the sea
The dying fish make one last plea.
To Westminster they’re going in a ship
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anger and sadness.
Part of what makes bitterness a complex emotion is that it also includes disappointment, or the experience of having been disappointed as a pattern of behavior over time. Disappointment, is a complex emotion, too, because disappointment involves sadness, but it also includes other layers. If you think about disappointment, you realize that anger may be in that mix, as well (feeling angry that things didn’t work out better or that your particular needs did not get met).
He said he’s got hallelujah
What’s that, a cousin of halitosis?
Well think about it. Leonard Cohen would have not been successful he had sung
Halitosis halitosis Hally toe oh oh oh oh oh Sis.
In a few years nobody will know what halitosis is
Nobody will have bad breath in a few years?
No they will just call it bad breath because halitosis is too complicated to learn
Well it’s not that bad to spell is it?
It’s not as difficult as halleluja do you think hallelujah is Jewish?
I’m afraid I don’t know that but Leonard Cohen was
Yes the word Cohen means priest. All the priests are descended from Aaron and if you are male and descended from Aaron you are a priest
So you are a priest if and only if if you are a male descendent of Aaron?
Precisely.
But I don’t want to be a priest
But you’re not jewish!
We can’t be sure because he might have had illegitimate children
I think I better get you some Prozac
Will it make me feel Jewish?
I don’t think anybody could feel Jewish if they had not been brought up in a Jewish household
So it’s not genetic then?
The genes don’t work if they’re not put in the right environment.
Like many human beings.
Yes if there were no dirty kitchen then women wouldn’t feel like cleaning them1p
P I’m beginning to get the hang of this. So if there were no churches or synagogues or mosques nobody would feel like praying.P
Except when they were having a heart transplantP
Why would that be different?
They could be staring death in the face.
I didn’t know that deatg5 had a face
It’s metaphorical!
Well if you see it coming in the door
If it is going to come it will come
That’s what my mother used to say when I was constipated.
Framlingham and primroses by stream
Water gently flowing like a dream
The air as soft as butter helped your lungs
I saw you smiling then you look quite young
The North sea in the distance pulled us on
Orford Southwold Shingle Street my man
Without his presence I am insecure
No primrose grows alas I am too pure
How many people in the UK have over 100000 in savings?
15% of subscribers saved at the maximum in 2019 to 2020, rising to 39% of those with income of £100,000 to £149,999, and to 60% of those with income of £150,000 or more. The highest proportion of savers, around 54%, saved between £1 and £2,499.8 Jun 2022
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1 in 10 Brits (9%) have no savings at all. In 2020, the average person in the United Kingdom (UK) had £6,757 saved. A third of Brits have less than £600 in savings. 41% of Brits don’t have enough savings to live for a month without income.28 Jan 2022
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/well/mind/fall-autumn-anxiety.html
Of course, anxiety isn’t always helpful, Dr. Dennis-Tiwary said. Sometimes it can feel all-consuming. If that’s true for you, she said, take time to connect to the present in a way you enjoy — perhaps by taking a walk, gardening, talking to a therapist or doing yoga or breathing exercises.
Dr. David suggested framing your feelings as observations. When we think or say things like “I am sad” or “I am anxious,” we imply that these feelings are who we are, and that they are all-encompassing, she said. “That is a kind of de facto imprisonment,” she said, “because you’re defining yourself by that difficult emotion and there’s no space for the other parts of yourself to come forward.” Instead, try saying something like “I’m noticing that I’m feeling sad” or “I’m noticing feelings of anxiety come up.” When we reframe feelings this way, we can create space for progress, she said.
As I enjoy these last few weeks of summer, I will remember that my feelings of loss and worry are normal, even helpful. In the coming weeks, I’ll try to dig into my emotions to learn a bit more about myself and identify steps I can take to make the fall feel a little less scary and a little more welcoming. But I’m still steering clear of pumpkin spice treats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/well/worry-burnout-covid.amp.html
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We experience emotions for a reason, said Jeffrey Cohen, a clinical psychologist and psychiatry professor at Columbia. Fear is an evolutionary tool to respond to threats; anxiety sends an alarm through our brains, alerting us that we need to get ourselves to safety. But at this stage of the pandemic, he said, we’ve dealt with the constant threat of Covid-19 for so long that we no longer trust our brains when they tell us we’re under attack. “It’s like, is this even a real alarm anymore?” Dr. Cohen said.
The physiological symptoms of stress wear on us, he added. Our nervous system reacts to worry: Cortisol levels shoot up, heart rates rise. We end up in a heightened, chronically exhausted state. “Your body can’t sustain high levels of anxiety for long periods of time without fatiguing,” said Michelle Newman, a psychology professor at Pennsylvania State University who researches it
How sweet the river bank in grassy fields
Unperturbed by Cromwell and his men
Again it’s full of peace,no monk nor nun
Naught remains but one nave broken, healed.
https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/savings-accounts/average-household-savings-uk#savingsperyear
The typical UK household saves £2,160 per year—this represents the median amount saved annually, so half of households save less than £2,160 each year and half save more.
The average amount saved each year is £5,403 per household. This average figure is more than 2X higher than the median figure because a small number of households have very high savings rates. For example, households in the top quintile of income save an average of £21,798 each year. In contrast, the bottom quintile of earners saves -£4,221 a year.How much do UK households save each year?Median (50% of households save more than this, 50% save less)£2,160
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The median is that point at which 50% of people save more than 50% save less.
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The average amount saved each year is £5,403 per household. This average figure is more than 2X higher than the median figure because a small number of households have very high savings rates. For example, households in the top quintile of income save an average of £21,798 each year. In contrast, the bottom quintile of earners saves -£4,221 a year.
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