The animal rights organisation,, Animal Aid, says that around sixty million pheasants and partridges are bred each year in the UK, to be shot. It doesn’t say there are all shot. Some might escape or die before growing old enough to be driven into the air. Or they might escape the guns and live out … Read more
Fairy Tale London Ah, the beautiful buildings of fairy tale London. Aren’t they terrific? This photo shows the spires of the renovated St. Pancras Station peeping out from behind the forecourt of the recently renovated British Library in London. St. Pancras Station was famously saved from demolition by the poet John Betjaman, who mounted a … Read more
Buddha’s Religious Teachings Having adopted the life of a religious master from the age of 35 until his death in 486 B.C. at the age of 80, Buddha taught the ‘noble truths’ that the craving for pleasure and the avoidance of pain leads to existence and suffering. To get out of this cycle, Buddha stressed, … Read more