The phrase ‘ a healthy mind in a healthy body’ from Juvenal Satires X haunts the insistence on doing physical exercise or elae of advisers, counsellors and other ‘Job’s comforters ‘ (Job 2: 11). Read on from Job verse 2  if you want the content of their advice and Job’s summary of it in his … More ‘et potiores / Herculis aerumnas credat saevosque labores / et venere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli’. Minding Physical exercise.

A quotation from Balzac is worthless as a  proposition of a supposed truth as held and stated by that great soul, for these quotations are often, as this is, the stated view of a character in a novel, a thing up for debate. It is a good proposition to start with in  response to this … More The silliest binary of them all is that between positive and negative life events.

What a choppy sea of a world we live in when such a question as this prompt makes sense, if it does, to anyone? I have difficulties with the idea of ‘favourite’ as a descriptor of ‘people’, especially given the plural form of the thing favoured. Are we asked to list individuals or nominate a … More Refusing to be just the label means redefining your worth beyond any one label! Or is that only true for the privileged classes? A blog informed by Madian Al Jazerah ‘Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth’.