In a crisis we depend on the level of training we have mastered. Ask a sailor.
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Why is our level of training important?
Interesting
Good Manners and Forks
Good manners is much more than knowing what fork to use. Good manners is listening to the other person and showing them respect.
Based on a comment during an interview with George Will
Facts versus Opinions
“You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The Earth is round 
The Earth is flat
How to navigate Impossible Conversations
Disclosure: I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post.
Do you have difficulty having conversations with people who strongly disagree with you? There are plenty of subjects these days that lead to very unpleasant arguments. I don’t have to tell you what these subjects are.
The good news is that there is an excellent book that can teach you how to navigate difficult conversations. I am a retired lawyer. I wish I had read book like this decades ago..
This is not just another self help book. It is essential reading discussions in today’s world. It is practical and full of helpful examples.
Here is a link to the book. Click on the link. Have a look. You don’t have to buy it. It is the book called “How to Have Imposssible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide” by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay.
The commission? Amazon will pay it to me. You don’t pay the commission.
Realising the great unknown
The importance of realising how much we do not know.
Questions to think about (3): Love now
“One day, you are going to hug your last hug, kiss your last kiss and hear someone’s voice for the last time, but you never know when the last time will be. Live every day as if it were the last time you will be with the person you love.”
Does this quote speak to you? Is the message prompting you to do something, right now?
Author of quote unknown to me
Kruger National Park August 2021
Good friends are visiting Kruger this week. They have seen plenty of game including a leopard. They are having a great time. Here are some of the pictures they have WhatsApped to me. Enjoy!
Six pictures, starting with a picture they took of two baboons in a tree!
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PS The Baboons were not in a tree above the lions! If they were, that is what they would be thinking!
View from the pier, Port Elizabeth
Sunday 27 August 2021. A beautiful day.
Zeiss U-Boat Binoculars 7×50
I own this pair of Zeiss U-Boat binoculars made in Jena in 1942. They are fixed focus 7X50. I had them serviced in England a few years ago. They are now bright and razor sharp. People looking through them the first time just say “Wow!”
They are magnificent for scanning the sea. Also, they are very useful for game viewing on safari. If you are looking at a lion 50 meters away and a buck moves 200 meters beyond the lion you immediately notice the buck, which is also razor sharp. No time wasted!
Using the binoculars to watch cricket is wonderful. From the grandstand looking down the wicket you can see the batsman and all the slips, all at once. Most enjoyable.
Twenty five years ago I sent pictures of the binoculars to Zeiss. In return Zeiss very kindly sent me an article all about the binoculars. Please scroll down for the article. The article is in two pictures.
I hope anyone interested in binoculars finds this post interesting. Thank you.
Extract from article. Please scroll down (two pictures)
Full Article below – Please scroll down.
Thank you.
Sunlight and Free Speech
The sunlight of free speech is the best disinfectant against the darkness of irrational beliefs.
Based on a metaphor in Free Speech by Andrew Doyle
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