On Midsummer’s Day, some words from A Midsummer Night’s Dream – enjoy. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” “My soul is in the sky.” “If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weakContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #663”
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After Teeth and Skin, what’s next? Hair?
I read this article in the Guardian today and wondered if there are any dentists involved in the hair game. It strikes me that if someone has a need but they’re not sure who to trust the why not their local GDP? The same old horror stories are mentioned and Tom who was quoted inContinue reading “After Teeth and Skin, what’s next? Hair?”
The Monday Morning Quote #660
As I start continue some changes in my life this poem reflects how I believe many of us have felt at times over the past 15 months. In my case it has been the usual Festina lente (make haste slowly) as opposed to “Big Bang”. At the mid-point of the path through life, I foundContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #660”
The Monday Morning Quote #659
“The pursuit of money for its own sake is a pathological condition. The proper aim of money is to provide leisure.” John Maynard Keynes
The Monday Morning Quote #658
Nice quote from Plant plus a more than 6 minutes of strutting, plank-spanking, and the rhythm section from heaven. “The past is a stepping-stone, not a millstone.” Robert Plant
Quentin presents – The Windowizer
Someone had to do it, and at last it has arrived. As its inventor Quentin Stafford-Fraser modestly describes it, “An important invention for a post-lockdown world”.
Oblique Strategies…or what to do when you get stuck.
I am a great admirer of Brian Eno’s work, both what he does and how he does it. A unique individual and also an excellent collaborator, not always easy to be good at both. Some people know him as part of the original Roxy Music, some due to his producing credits, others for his “ambient”Continue reading “Oblique Strategies…or what to do when you get stuck.”
What would you do if I took away your handpieces?
Deep from the recesses of my mind came a memory of a challenge issued to me in the days when I was starting to come to terms with being a practice owner. “If I were to take away your handpieces for a day, or even a week, and not allow you to change any ofContinue reading “What would you do if I took away your handpieces?”
The Monday Morning Quote #649
“If you like things easy, you’ll have difficulties: if you like problems, you’ll succeed.” Laotian Proverb
Wise Words
“There is no problem on this planet between human beings that couldn’t be solved with 15 minutes of considered conversation. Where I come from in the South we don’t argue to win, but to find a greater truth; we’re as proud to be right as wrong, or not know the answer. Much of the world couldContinue reading “Wise Words”
