Sometime last year, I received a very generous gift and a note from someone. It read: ‘I may not say it always, but I mean it whenever I say it : Thank you for all the things you’ve done for me.’ As much as I liked the present, the note…

November 13 is World Kindness Day. To celebrate this, I will be blogging about kindness over the next few days. Kindness Begins With Me There are two ways of interpreting this – one, that kindness must start with me being kind to others and two, I must start with myself.…

Without harking back to the ‘good old days’, because it’s entirely possible that the media brings us stories that would otherwise have been lost, but does it seem to you that we have all become much more insensitive to the suffering of others? The Spirit of Abstraction? Gabriel Marcel in…