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......... "seek the shalom of the city
where I have sent you
because in it's shalom,
you will find your own shalom"

God
Bible Book
some where in Jeremiah
methinks.

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.......................... there is a man who I see regularly who
never looks my way
never speaks until I say hello
never uses my name
more often a grunt
never eye contact
always the head dropped

this human person
and
yes
I WILL say
'a beautiful human person'
- will not change my way of
saying hello to everyone
using a name whenever I can recall
looking whilst communicating

I have decided to behave in a certain way and another human will not control my proactive communication by their own behaviour.
I will not be a reactor

I know a woman who is nasty to me
all the time
every interaction

I will be
I will not be
a reactor

There is some deep sense of faith and theology behind this - I must try to understand it sometime.

www.pipwilson.com

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............... if you are like me - you will appreciate the full transcript of the Bono talk at the Labour Party Conference ...... and i know some background not blogable ........

see;

http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=3526


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...... well here i am ..... not packed for paris and have a full day at the Office tomorrow ..... well with BHPs ....... and here i am listening to U2 and planning my holidays with U2 so I can catch them in every european country/concert next year ,,,, no interest in bed ..... even after a busy day ...... and big John helping me with sought after trax and Jude sending me love over the e-waves from her late night workings ....... don't you just love it - love it ........


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..... I just wept ...... I admit ........... I read these words from the labour Party Conference ..... and the words of Bono ......

"In the larger sense, I'm here as part of a journey that began in 1984-85, with BandAid and LiveAid.
Another very talll, grizzled rock star, my friend Sir Bob Geldof, issued a challenge to 'feed the world.'

It was a great moment, it changed my life.

That summer, my wife Ali and I went to Ethiopia,
on the quiet, to see for ourselves what was going on.We lived there for a month, working at an orphanage. The locals knew me as 'Dr Good Morning'. The children called me 'The Girl with the Beard.' Don't ask.

But let me say this - Africa is a magical place. And anybody who ever gave anything there got a lot more back. A shining shining continent, with beautiful royal faces… Ethiopia not just blew my mind, it opened my mind.

On our last day at the orphanage a man handed me his baby and said: take him with you. He knew in Ireland his son would live; in Ethiopia his son would die.
I turned him down."

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......... I love the mission of Bono and the music which comes out of U2 and the passion they have ....

He gave it to them today ..........

..... he said at the Labour party conference .....

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were the John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the global development stage, he said praising their achievements.
But he urged the pair to "finish what they started" and end world poverty.
Britain had a real chance to effect change when it took up the G8 presidency next year, he said.

It's not about charity it's about justice
If a rich country "with the reins of power in its hands" could not lead the fight against world poverty then critics who called him "Labour's apologist" would be right, he said.

The star and global campaigner called for action to combat the spread of Aids and ease Africa's debt burden.

He praised the government's decision to increase its contribution to the global fight against HIV/Aids but said there was more to do.

"I'm fond of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They are kind of the John and Paul of the global development stage, in my opinion.

"But the point is, Lennon and McCartney changed my interior world - Blair and Brown can change the real world."

"It's not about charity it's about justice," he said reminding delegates of the thousands dying in Africa for the lack of medicines available in high street chemists in the UK. 'Continent in flames'

He told delegates the fight against world poverty was a cause as noble as when their grandparents fought the Nazis.
He went on: "Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice; it makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties, it doubts our concern, it questions our commitment.

"Because there's no way we can look at Africa - a continent bursting into flames - and if we're honest conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

"Anywhere else. Certainly not here. In Europe. Or America. Or Australia, or Canada.

"There's just no chance."

He continued: "You see, deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out.
"We've got watering cans; when what we really need are the fire brigades."
His speech focused on the work of his Debt, Aids, Trade Africa (Data) organisation as well as his backing for a campaign called Make Poverty History.

Bono is the latest in a string of high-profile speakers from around the world to address the annual gathering in recent years, following on from Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai.

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... one book .......

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..... in fact the only one available ..... find out how to get it by emailing;
pip @ pip wilson dot com
(done like this to fool the spammers!)

lovingyouissoeasytodo

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I have often enthused .....

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...... about this fantastic album from one of my most loved artiste.

I never say I recommend but i want to say "I love this album"

Title
"beautiful human"

I could have been in on the briefing ....... I love it love it -LOVE IT!

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"There will never be any peace until God sits down at the conference table."


- Nick Lowe,
British songwriter, vocalist, musician, producer, wit, raconteur.
From his song:
"There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Sits Down at the Conference Table)."
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