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So, what should I say about the Monaco Grand Prix of the 2022 Formula 1 Season?  Well, of course I could say a lot, even if much of what I would say, if honestly said, would be in the realm of a very boring and tedious grand prix.  Yes, having endured the Miami Grand Prix with its  rather dated and in your face Americanaesque atmosphere, well might Formula 1 fans have been looking forward to enjoying a real classic race at the Monaco Grand Prix.  That, at least, might have been the hope, the understandable expectation.  Because, although the MGP has the characteristic of being able to devolve into a very gruelling and tedious race.  It is also a circuit which is able to and has delivered exciting races. Unfortunately, however, this year's Monaco Grand Prix delivered nothing of the kind.  It was a most boring race which saw the racing cars going round and round, following the car in front and rarely having the opportunity to do any overtaking.  A situation which, along with the conf

  It is probably often the case that we do not directly acknowledge and give praises to people enough when they are alive and are able to benefit from our positive feelings towards them. Such were and are still my thoughts this morning, when my esteemed partner entered the room and calmly instructed me to 'put your feet here.' Gesturing towards her thigh, as she sat down on the chair opposite me.  Uh, I thought, with the appropriately puzzled look on my face. I did not have to be in anyway apprehensive or worried, as she set about 'anointing' my very dry and unhealthy looking feet with the Nivea Cream.  It transpired that my beloved had seen how terrible my feet were looking, When she first entered the room.  So, when she left and then came back, equipped to 'do something about them.' It was not the first time she had 'anointed my feet', but her act of compassion again reminded me of her love for me, and of why I love her as much as I do.  So, as I sing

  So, how do we humans live best, most abundantly? Is it by living a one dimensional life, or striving, endeavouring to live multi-dimensional lives? It seems to me that a person lives best by endeavouring to live multi-dimensional lives.  To vary what we do, how and when we do it. To become a good generalist, instead of toiling to become an acclaimed specialist, which is not to say one should never seek to become a specialist.  Although we should be mindful of the likely fate of, say another species of animal that evolves being dependent on only one kind of food, should that habitat becomes extinct. As I sit her doing this post, and listening to the soothing, calm and reflection inducing music of Classical musicians such as Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss, Bach, et al.  I find that I am asking myself, 'supposed I had not had the pleasure of hearing the beautiful and powerful music of these musicians? Would I not have been musically-impoverished?  Supposed my diet of music had b

  .. to live with myself, if I were to find, or admit that have misled 'the flock'?     Then they should review and change what they have been asserting. As this would be the responsible and honest thing to do. So, when the people of the cloth, having the evidence,  the knowledge and/or information, that their acclaimed religious 'truths', doctrines or dogmas which they and their ancestors have been selling, preaching to the masses for hundreds of years.  Is eclectic fictitious myths which have been carefully and conspiratorially accumulated and processed. But still continue to proclaim that it is authentic and sacred truths, what motive can they have for doing so? What motive can these clergies have for continue to act in a manner which not only perpetuate the clerical injustice of their predecessors in persecuting, torturing and killing innocent men and women in the past, who were more enlightened than they were? It certainly cannot be said that these men and women of

  Something which was much in evidence in Barcelona, as we saw the high anxiety of Verstappen, when he was repeatedly confronted with his car's DRS problem.  While Leclerc, for atleast the second time in the season, failed to deliver the win he had been expected to achieve. I seen reports citing Fernando Alonso saying that 'it is about the car and not the driver, or, rather, I think he is arguing, the 'special skills of the racer.' Well, it is very likely that when you have cars of similar performance and racers of similar or equal racing skills and competence.  The comparative success of each of them can be attributed to factors such as luck/bad luck, racing strategy, consistency/inconsistency of performance, and racing acumen. So, now that Hamilton's car has been brought upto this level of performance, we should be seeing Hamilton deploying his considerable his racing acumen to begin winning races again.  And who knows; probably 'hammering' his way up the

  So, having endured the Miami 'Americanesque' Grand Prix, it was time to return to authentic Formula 1 grand prix territory, in the form of the Spanish Grand Prix of the 2022 Season.  And probably needless to say; it did not disappoint.  It was a race which was filled with  the right amount, if not exceeded the levels of adrenaline, unpredictability, gladiatorial challenges and excitement we should or could expect from the best of Formula 1 races.  Probably the biggest missing ingredient we could have hoped for - even though it was, arguably, not needed - was the absence of any VSC or Safety Car episodes.  Yes, it would have been helpful, probably mostly Team Mercedes and more specifically, Lewis Hamilton.   Who, having gotten caught up in a wheel-to-wheel involuntary embrace with Magnussen in the first half of the first lap, found himself trailing at the pack of the convoy, with atleast a wee bit of damage to Car 44.  As the race evolved, however, the incident provided Hamilt

  .. to live with myself, if I were to find, or admit that have misled 'the flock'?     After all, religions faiths are, indeed, one of the central pillars of most, if not all of our human societies.  Even if the level of  belief and devotion, at given times, might, like the tide of the ocean, ebbs and flows.  Or, in some societies, even steadily decline as 'irrational belief' gives way to increased scientific dominance and intellectual enlightenment. But, is it enough?  Can it ever be enough for men and women of the cloth of any theistic religious faiths.   To use the cultural imperative, the fact that 'we were born into our religious faiths, which is an important part of us', to explain away or mitigate their culpability, if they have mislead their flock? I mean, although it would be a credible defence to argue that men and women of the cloth are simply keeping the customs, traditions and cultures of our ancestors alive.   By continuing to preach and teach the