Yeah: thought I'd stick with the upbeat themes.

I wanted to explore further the ways in which the dominant cultural messages incline us to have an unduly mistrustful view of our fellows.

Hope seems intrigued by positive psychology and though I am more sceptical I agree that we are capable of of transforming our emotions.

I mentioned that Guy Kahane had written in a paper that for some people, if not all, our emotional reactions might be awry.

What I wanted to think about today was how reliable much of what we feel is?

I think I should have the right to a husband, but there we go.

Justice demands more than love as we humans seem to manifest it, with its partiality and prejudice.

The space of interstanding is the intimate distance between us where our differences are at play.

I came across this article on tact the other day and it encouraged me to think again about some of the ideas that keep repeating recurring.

When fishing for reasons for my low mood, I'm hooked by the possibility that it's the angle of it that effects me.

There was this theme at the start of the coronavirus pandemic that we were all in it together. But of course we weren't.

So, this is the set up: you live alone and you can’t have a pet because, say, you’re in an apartment.

Look at the puddle in the picture - the pattern determined by so many factors, internal and external.

I do think that loneliness, in its wider implications (alienation, marginalisation) limits or decreases trust*.

Essays, papers and books. I'm not sure how much I follow, how much I agree or disagree, how much I even think some of it seems worthwhile...

What could that bee? I'm just listing some thoughts that come to mind.

So, I have come across a couple of things that might feed into my prominence-of-'thou' view.

Five pence. There are times when that makes all the difference - needing cash to pay for a parking fee or a packet of aspirins, for example.

Here, well, I guess I'm heading into my personal perspective again...

I go out with a plus mind so that I can notice. So that I can be-in-that-world and value it.