Change more than your underclothes.

Growth 
does 
not 
reside 
in a 
place 
called 
comfortable.

The greatest friend of the soul 

is the unknown.

Yet we are afraid of the unknown

because it lies outside our vision and our control.

We avoid it or quell it by 

filtering it through our protective barriers

of domestication and control.

The normal way never leads home."

by John O'Donohue 

www.pipwilson.com

www.blobtree.com 

Marlboro Cowboy in cigarette ads dies of chronic lung disease. RIP

Marlboro ad man Eric Lawson dies of chronic lung disease
Actor who appeared in cigarette campaign in late 1970s 

is third Marlboro cowboy to succumb to smoking-related illness

Eric Lawson appeared in the Marlboro ads from 1978 to 1981. 

Eric Lawson, who portrayed 

the rugged Marlboro man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, 

has died. 

He was 72.

Lawson died on 10 January at his home in San Luis Obispo 

of respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 

his wife, Susan Lawson, said on Sunday.

Lawson was an actor with bit parts on such TV shows as Baretta and 

The Streets of San Francisco when he was hired to appear in print Marlboro ads 

from 1978 to 1981. 

His other credits include Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Baywatch. 

His wife said injuries sustained on the set of a western film ended his career in 1997.

A smoker since age 14, Lawson later appeared in an anti-smoking commercial 

that parodied the Marlboro man and an Entertainment Tonight segment 

to discuss the negative effects of smoking. 

Ms Lawson said her husband was proud of the interview, 

even though he was smoking at the time and 

continued the habit until he was diagnosed with COPD.

"He knew the cigarettes had a hold on him," she said. 

"He knew, yet he still couldn't stop."

A few actors and models who appeared in adverts for Marlboro cigarettes 

have died of smoking-related diseases. 

They include David Millar, who died of emphysema in 1987, and 

David McLean, who died of lung cancer in 1995.

Lawson is also survived by six children, 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

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Martin Wroe BHP - a little reflection on NEWS-worthy

My great friend Martin Wroe BHP
- a little reflection on NEWS-worthy

UNKLE - Heaven and fantastic skateboarding vid

The beautiful Spike Jonze video for the beautiful Heaven by UNKLE. Still to come on our Screen 6 Special, a brilliant story about how he came to shoot the Drunk Girls video with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem

U2 debuting new song 'Invisible' in Super Bowl ad, on iTunes for free

Lead singer Bono talked about "Invisible" at the Weinstein Company's 2014 Golden Globes after party on Jan. 12. 

He toldShowbiz 411 that "Invisible" is "not your typical love song" and that U2 is still working on its new album, which is set to be released in June. 

It will be the group's 13th major studio record and the first released since its 2009 album "No Line on the Horizon."

"Invisible" was produced by Danger Mouse and mixed by Tom Elmhirst. 

The band said in its statement that the song "launches a partnership with (RED) and Bank of America to fight AIDS," the message said, referring to the group Bono and Bobby Shriver founded in 2006.

"Every time the track is downloaded, anywhere in the world, a $1 donation will be made to (RED) by Bank of America - up to a total of $2 million," the group added. "All the funds will go to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria."

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Bono in interview

Bono on the difference between Grace and Karma

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Jon Kuhrt

“It’s a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the Universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people, but the thing that keeps me on my knees is the difference between Grace and Karma…

You see, at the centre of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, what you put out comes back to you; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics – in physical laws – every action is met by an equal or opposite one.  Its clear to me that Karma is at the very heart of the universe.  I’m absolutely sure of it.

And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that “As you reap, so will you sow” stuff.  Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I’ve done a lot of stupid stuff.

That’s between me and God. But I’d be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I’d be in deep shit. It doesn’t excuse my mistakes, but I’m holding out for Grace. I’m holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross because I know who I am, and I hope I don’t have to depend on my own religiosity.

The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That’s the point. It should keep us humbled….its not our own good works that get through the gates of heaven…

If only we could be a bit more like Him, the world would be transformed.  All I do is get up on the Cross of the Ego; the bad hangover, the bad review. When I look at the Cross of Christ, what I see up there is all my shit and everybody else’s. So I ask myself a question a lot of people have asked: Who is this man?  And was He who He said He was, or was he just a religious nut?  And there it is, and that’s the question.  And no one can talk you into it or out of it.”

All text taken from Chapter 11 of Bono on Bono: conversations with Michka Assayas, 2005 (Hodder).  Buy the book.

FROM A GREAT BLOG I follow HERE


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Disability, Ability - we all have them.

My friend Vince churning out great beats for you.

“They call themselves believers and thereby signify that they are pilgrims, strangers and aliens in the world. 

Indeed, a staff in the hand does not identify a pilgrim as definitely as calling oneself a believer publicly testifies that one is on a journey, because faith simply means: 

What I am seeking is not here, and for that very reason I believe it. 

Faith expressly signifies the deep, strong, blessed restlessness that drives the believer so that he cannot settle down at rest in this world, and therefore the person who has settled down completely at rest has also ceased to be a believer, because a believer cannot sit still as one sits with a pilgrim's staff in one's hand – a believer travels forward” 

Søren Kierkegaard 

A Pilgrim's Tale - Secret Archives of the Vatican Podcast 118 by Secret Archives Of The Vatican on Mixcloud

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