Posts from ‘November, 2009’

Happiness depends on what you can give. Not what you can get.
-         Mahatma Gandhi

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter
-         Greville

November the 16th is the International Day for Tolerance, encouraging nations around the world to take all positive measures necessary to promote tolerance in our societies.
UNESCO’s Declaration of Principles on Tolerance defines tolerance as “respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human. [...]

Movember is an annual, month-long celebration of the moustache, highlighting men’s health issues, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men.
The idea for Movember came about in 2003. When a few men,  inspired by the women’s health movement, recognized that men were lacking a way to engage and actively involve themselves in their own health. The idea [...]

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change
-         Wayne Dyer

How much do we think about what you eat? When you say grace before each meal do you think about how far your food had travelled to reach your plate? Do you understand how greater impact on the environment the meal you are sitting down to eat has had? Is the information available to us; or [...]

Paddington Uniting Church, in Sydney, has used the Uniting Church in Australia logo in a really striking and effective way. Their new banner, designed by Ben Toupein, stretches between two large trees and hangs over the main entrance to the Church. Ben has repeated the dove from the Uniting Church logo in the design, all [...]

Meera Aitkinson, for the Transit Lounge writes: “In a new initiative, New South Wales police are now being given copies of the Bible. But is it kosher?”
” … The new Bible is a compact, Police-blue, leather-bound book that includes the New and Old Testaments, along with information on police ethics and issues and a police [...]

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer
-         Albert Einstein