Out of contact for a while

Busy, busy... big birthday last week, moving house this week, then no phone service until end of December. So if anyone visits here trying to track me down, apologies - 01604 889152 will resume service hopefully on 28/12 and email a few days after this.

Films about inhumanity

Having visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on the International Day of Peace, during my last visit to DC, this visit I brought 2 films along which I have been meaning to watch for so long.

I settled down to watch The Passion on Monday - what an amazing film. For all that I knew the story, I was stunned by the feelings it invoked actually watching the events re-enacted. Powerful and thought-provoking in terms of man's inhumanity towards fellow man 2000 years ago - and how little has changed in many ways since then.

Then yesterday I followed this with The Pianist. Stunning in its straight-forward style, it tells the true story of a Jewish pianist who somehow survives Warsaw between 1939 and 1945 (living then until 2000 when he died age 88).

Both films are harrowing but they both also feature moments of hope - the basic truth that there are some really good people who bravely go against the current tide and stand up for what they believe to be right.

English Al Jazeera

I am delighted to see the launch of the new English Al Jazeera. This can only help people to understand others better. I so believe - attempting to understand each other... to see things from others' perspectives, is the key to building peace amongst the different people of the world. It gets off to an interesting start - David Frost interviewing Tony Blair this Friday.

Mega-milestones

Oops - no blog postings for ages. It has been a busy few weeks - planning to move house is taking spare energy and time.

I have just posted my November newsletter at http://www.ambitioncoach.com/62652/89229.html. Here, I focused on how much a big milestone can help if you have something you wish to achieve, especially a long-held dream which has seen little action so far!

I think it is fair for me to refer to turning 50 as a mega-milestone! Almost there...