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First posted on 12 June 2015. Updated on 10 March 2025.
N.B. Ten years ago, on 12 June 2015, I had written an Open Letter to the Bank of England governor, Mr. Mark Carney. A couple of days earlier, he had given a speech at the Mansion House in London. The speech had greatly resonated with me, a banker, speaking about values-led capitalism and the need to take action in the interest of the people and the common good.
His words and sentiments ring as true today as they did in 2015. This is why I wish to share it again with you.
But, before all that, time is now to celebrate the new prime minister of Canada:
Mark Carney, the eighth governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the 120th governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020 to become Canada's next PM after a landslide Liberal leadership victory.
Mark Carney is introduced during the Liberal Party of Canada's leadership announcement in Ottawa, Ontario on March 9, 2025. “America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Carney told supporters.-Photo Credit: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press/AP
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Travel as Therapy in these Challenging Times
California dreaming...Big Sur's coastline
Big Sur...Where Heaven and Earth Meet
Big Sur...Where Sea and Mountains Kiss
Photo credit: Sean Diediker via PBS
"Paradise or no paradise, I have the very definite impression that the people of this vicinity are striving to live up to the grandeur and nobility which is such an integral part of the setting. They behave as if it were a privilege to live here, as if it were by an act of grace they found themselves here. The place itself is so overwhelmingly bigger, greater, than anyone could hope to make it that it engenders a humility and reverence not frequently met with in Americans. There is nothing to improve on in the surroundings, the tendency is to set about improving oneself."-Henry Miller
Not long ago, a few years back, I wrote a Blog on The Healing Power of Travel and Wanderlust. Today, reading through the pages of my Sunday Paper, I felt sad and confused, so much news coverage on all the horrible things going on in the world.
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The announcement of a ceasefire is, at last, a moment of hope for the people suffering in pain and agony, living hopelessly in darkness and despair.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
‘The Children of Adam
Are limbs of one another,
In terms of Creation,
They're of the self-same Essence.’
(Sa'adi, the Persian poet. His words are inscribed at the entrance to the United Nations Secretariat in New York)
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