50. Allow Me To Introduce You To Mr Costello
Welcome to The Dossier #50 which, incase you were wondering, is also the number on the new £ banknote which will be hitting UK bank accounts in June. It features Alan Turing, one of Britain’s most important scientists, best known for his codebreaking work which helped end the Second World War. Turing was embraced for his brilliance and persecuted for being gay. This confirms his status as one of the most iconic LGBT+ figures in the world.
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No, you’re not mistaken, it’s Sunday again.
Here’s some internet that you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. A Quote
This gem from my meditation teacher Jacqui who, quite frankly, completely changed my life exactly two years ago.
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Better to have a short life
That is full of what you like doing
Than a long life
Spent in a miserable way.
— Alan Watts
Get your own meditation magic going on here.
2. Beauty From Waste
Hair combs made from recycled plastic by RE=COMB.
3. Reading
Have you ever wondered how to choose a therapist?
4. A Poem
On The Beach Alone at Night — Walt Whitman
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On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
5. Re-reading
See you next Sunday.