Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction

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I happened upon Baba Hari Dass many years back… I have read several of his books and find him so accessible. He took a continued vow of silence from 1952 until his death in 2018. He rightly noted in the introduction to this book - “It is said that freedom is only relevant to one who is in prison.”

Whatever takes form is false.
Only the formless endures.

When you understand
The truth of this teaching,
You will not be born again.

CHAPTER 25 - Possession of Compassion - Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, for material wealth is possessed even by contemptible men.

A full page in the Saturday Guardian!! I truly wish that as much £ as was spent on this ad would be instead spent promoting good health… can you imagine what state your body/health would be in if you ate like this all the time… you might say it is just a treat, but some people get addicted to such!

Growing pea shoots, radish microgreens & basil/salad leaves hydroponically, eat as healthily as possible & don’t depend on the grocery store for it all if possible, read labels on everything you do buy… glyphosate might not be in the label, but if you are in the USA, it’s probably in your food… 😱😱

Yes… it is inevitable that it will happen I do truly believe… it’s just a matter of when… I too am optimistic, maybe I will need to look more closely into the other paths… also ‘mumuksu’ is a new word for me… shall look into and embrace… thank you for your replies… they are truly appreciated… 🙏🧘‍♂️

I went to town today hoping to find a book about Hinduism at the Oxfam Bookshop as I have been reading the Bhagavad Gita about Krishna. I saw a young man outside the shop holding this book! He was a ‘Hare Krishna’ follower, we spoke, I gave him a donation for the book… there was nothing in the shop…

Chapter 22 - Understanding One’s Duty to Give - He who understands the duty of giving truly lives. All others shall be counted among the dead.🙏

If you mean my conclusion that it won’t happen in this lifetime, moksha, I am open to whatever happens but am being realistic. I say I want it more than anything but in reality have never been able to master meditation which seems is paramount on the path, not enough characters to continue lucky you

Chapter 20 - Prestige and popularity flee the best of men the moment they speak inane and useless words.

Chapter 16 - Worthless are those who injure others vengefully…

"I was speechless": Cow returns to Lapland farm after six months on the run – with a newborn in tow A farmer in Rovaniemi was astonished this week when a heifer who ran away half a year ago reappeared with a newborn.

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Hydroponics… I got this 12 cell countertop hydroponic kit off Amazon and it’s is worth every cent!!! (On Prime Sale for £79.99). This time I am growing sweet and lettuce basil and it is now almost 5 weeks old… in another few weeks it will be totally filled with basil…the lettuce basil gets enormous

I think my health would be imperilled if I ate Ultra Processed Foods everyday… thank heavens I don’t have to… 🙏😃

Apples!! all the apples from my apple tree and those trees up and down the street are gone so I turn to the store. Mike Thorn in Gloucestershire grows the best (organic) apples I have ever had from the store, they aren’t around for long but I buy them up and have one a day with my homemade yogurt…

Homemade Balkan yogurt!!! It’s a smooth, creamy, slightly tangy yogurt eaten regularly in the Balkans… It’s similar to Bulgarian yogurt with the same live cultures, just in different proportions. My Luvele yogurt maker is the best ever after 40 years of making yogurt… it’s available worldwide too…

Homegrown!!! Microgreens are easy to grow and a wonderful source of nutrition… cress on the left which I planted 5 days ago (have had on heat pad and under grow light as it is now autumn with cooler temps/ shorter days), then on right is sunflower which are the trickiest of all to grow but worth it!

Spent morning pruning/weeding last bit before winter… I collected 17 x 20kg bags of horse manure from local stables in September and have spread beds w/ volcanic dust, covered with the manure for the winter… hopefully will get several hard freezes to break it up here on Bristol Channel, west Wales..

I am so excited for you and NYC!!! Wish I were there to help knock doors… congratulations for everything you have done to date and the difference you have made in the world!!! Looking forward to Mayor Mamdani!!!

From my greenhouse grown in a self watering container… first try and a great success! Almost too pretty to eat, but don’t want to wait too long and have something happen… I have left a few smaller ones to see how they go as the days grow shorter (51.6 N latitude) and the temperature cooler…

'Brothers in the forest' - the fight to protect an isolated Amazon tribe Peru's Mashco Piro face a struggle to survive in the 21st Century, but locals want to help them.

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I have run the religious/spiritual gauntlet over and over and over since I was 8 years old, and now, 60 plus years on, I always come back to this…finding the divinity within is my only real goal in life… I have of course come to the conclusion that it certainly won’t happen in this lifetime… 🤪🙏

My Italian Treviso Radicchio growing in a self watering container in my greenhouse… even though the weather has turned to autumn, it is still growing and flourishing… my red pak choi however has given up… I shall note that for next year…

This poem was inspired by one of the greatest calamities in British military history: on Oct 25, 1854, during the Crimean War, the British Light Cavalry Brigade, comprising some 670 men, charged disastrously against some 25,000 Russian soldiers. Do people follow their leaders as ‘blindly’ today???

It’s a cactus, succulent, it can withstand drought… I put them out in my porch during summer and only water once completely dry and even then no rush… I bring them back in in September but some I do leave in year round… 😃

Funny thing is, what we call a Christmas Cactus appears to really be a thanksgiving cactus when you examine the leaves… I have never seen a Christmas cactus with the leaves as per this picture…

I lived in Bellevue as a child in 1961-62 and used to walk to the end of our street to look up at Mt Rainier!!! Of course I would get in trouble if caught as I was only 5 years old, but it didn’t stop me!!! It was like looking up to heaven!!!

My oldest Christmas Cactus is in full bloom… Nicholas is perhaps 10 years old and has been repotted several times… I had him at work for years until I retired and he decided to retire also and come home with me…🤪