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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Resigns on 7 July 2022. Photo: Financial Times
Dear Boris,
September 5th is looming fast and time to say goodbye.
So, you are leaving us. Although, not surprised, nonetheless, I am saddened and disappointed.
I am sad that you failed so spectacularly. You lied through Brexit. You told us Brexit is done. You told us you were going to level up with us, milk and honey for everyone. At the time, I recall, you were predicting a ’ Golden Future’ for our country, a prediction that as we now know well was nothing but a mirage and loads of hot air.
I am sad that things could have been very different. People had given you a landslide victory, an 80 seat majority, to enable you to do good, but you blew it.
And now you are leaving us, you broken and us broken too.
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The 1st page of my passport and the date of arrival in England on 19 August 1972
Thank you England for 50 blissful years
I remember so clearly that very first moment when I landed at Heathrow on 19 August 1972:
The immigration officer who was so kind, acknowledging my extreme nervousness and anxiety, whilst trying to comfort me by joking about the boxes of pistachio nuts and nougats (Gaz) I was carrying on my person. ‘I recognise an Iranian from miles away, they all carry boxes of Pistachios and nougats’, he said or words to that effect.
Then, off I went on my first ever journey in England, boarding the train to Oxford, then catching the bus to Summertown, north of Oxford, searching for Five Mile Drive, and getting totally confused and lost.
I asked a man in the street for directions. Looking at me so tired and confused, he dropped everything and drove me all the way to Mrs. Brown’s house, where I was going to have my lodgings.
From those very early days and years I began to see things that were in total contrast to the stereotypical images of British people and Britain I had been led to believe:
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To Honour and Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of our GCGI
These are the times when we desperately need inspiring and healing words of wisdom, hope and beauty.
A Gift from our GCGI archive to help set us free from chaos and despair, so that we may achieve inner peace and spiritual calm, a more generous and rewarding imagination, inspiring and empowering us to take action in the interest of the common good.
Life Lessons I've Learned in a World of Conflicting Ideas and Aspirations.
Connect a painting by Jacky Gerritsen
Better ways to get better, find inner peace and contentment, lead a fulfilling life in
harmony with mother nature, beauty and wisdom
Let Me Know What is Essential- Let Me Walk in Beauty
‘O Great Spirit,
whose voice I hear in the winds
and whose breath gives life to all the world,
hear me.
I am small and weak.
I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty
and let my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made
and my ears grow sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things
you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength not to be greater than my brother or sister
but to fight my greatest enemy, myself.
Make me always ready
to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes
So when life fades as the fading sunset
my spirit may come to you without shame.’
- Chief Yellow Lark, a nineteenth-century Lakota elder.
The seeds for a New World and New Life are in us and they need the waters of Healing to germinate and grow. Please take time to connect with the indestructible energy of Life that unites us all, by looking at the links below and reflecting on the hopeful messages that they project and guides us too:
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Our GCGI Journey Of Hope
World in Chaos and Despair: A Path on How to Survive the Modern World
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Love
World in chaos and despair: The healing power of art
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Travel and Wanderlust
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Meister Eckhart’s Four Es
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Living in the Slow Lane
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Ancient Wisdom
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Trees
World in Chaos and Despair: Let Wordsworth be Your Teacher
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Mother Earth
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Friendship
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Gardens
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Nature-Based Education
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Poetry
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of the Dawn
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Slow Food
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Interfaith Spiritual Music
World in Chaos and Despair: Rediscovering the art of healing ourselves and all that is around us
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Laughter
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Music
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Slow Reading
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Gratitude
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of the Simple Things in Life
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Doing Good
World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Storytelling
World in Chaos and Despair: Remembering the Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- GCGI Our Journey of Hope is 20 Years Old
- Mum and Dad’s Poetic Words of Love on the First Day of School
- World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Travel and Wanderlust
- A prophetic memo to President Carter in 1977 that could have changed the course of history
- World in Chaos and Despair: The Healing Power of Love