http://billallin.blogsome.com This blog elaborates on the most important book of our time, Turning It Around: Causes and Cures for Today's Epidemic Social Problems. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:31:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You Need It To Live, But Too Much Will Kill You Seldom in history has a product worn the horns of the Devil and the wings of an angel at the same time. Loved and respected because it provides the energy we need to work, to play, even to breathe, sugar ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/11/22/you-need-it-to-live-but-too-much-will-kill-you/ Still Waiting For The Light To Change We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. - Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936) Sometimes all we can do is to roll with the punches, deal with the circumstances life throws at us, and ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/11/18/still-waiting-for-the-light-to-change/ What A Relationship Needs To Succeed "If we were endowed with the same biological mating pattern as the [pair-bonding] goose, there could be no polygamy, no promiscuity, no celibacy, no harems, no group marriage, no trial marriage, and no divorce in any human community in any part of the world." and ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/10/21/what-a-relationship-needs-to-succeed/ Your Life In A Day With the passage of time, all such actions or lack of them, appear less significant. And anyway, since the cells in our body die and are renewed, replaced by different ones, we do in a literal sense become difference individuals. The connection I have to the ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/10/10/your-life-in-a-day/ Our Own Shame The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900) This would apply today to television and movies as well. Instead of doing what we must to see that our countrymen avoid behaviours we consider shameful, we complain ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/10/04/our-own-shame/ Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910) The Journey: Yours, Mine, Ours Join me on a journey. An unusual journey in that it will be one of the mind, prompted by my words ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/09/25/the-journey-yours-mine-ours/ How Public Schools Fail Us Tragically "The social, emotional and spiritual are part of a child’s connection with the world."- Mary Paradis, director of development at the Vancouver Waldorf School Why doesn’t every child deserve the kind of education kids get at some private schools? The schools I refer to–Waldorf and Montessori ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/09/22/how-public-schools-fail-us-tragically/ Interesting Stuff About Movies No, despite what many believe, Thomas Edison did not invent the movie projector. He "bought" invention rights. The first celluloid roll film came into being at the hand of Episcopalian minister Hannibal Goodwin, of Newark, New Jersey, USA. His great idea didn’t go far because he couldn’t figure ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/09/14/interesting-stuff-about-movies/ Living Beyond Your Life Today It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.It’s the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.It’s the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to giveand the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.- Lyrics in The Rose, ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/08/23/living-beyond-your-life-today/ Why You Are Here You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. ... http://billallin.blogsome.com/2009/08/20/why-you-are-here/