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- IT APPEARS MARIO COULDN'T HOLD HIS DRINK

*"DRINK, DRINK, DRINK"

PIC: Giphy

THE GIVE AND TAKE OF IT ALL

We can't survive a system where most everyone is taking something but living under the fantasy that we are too making a "contribution".

Giving and taking are two completely different things.

I mean what is giving and what is taking?

The analogy of a full cup and an empty cup come to mind. I feel that I've been walking round with an empty cup for years now. It seems that I only keep going along my path by drip feed. I'm thirsty but can't seem to have that thirst quenched. 

Perhaps I should be grateful even for those drops? It does keep you small. Even if having the fullest of cups would it be used wisely? Some people throw themselves round like they have no tomorrow. In case you hadn't noticed we're in the process of a drought in humanity. Why give someone a lottery win if it's only going to be wasted?

Then, looking at the nightly news it appears that there are those in this world who don't even get the drops. They are totally empty. Not even a single drop in their cup to get them by? They are the ones who are causing the most mischief from the lowliest right through to the highest of leaders. This runs across the entire spectrum of our humanity.
That cup's gonna be filled by some anyway they can fill it.

Fact is we're all beggars. But most are absent of understanding the posture of humility. We are though such experts at creating the illusion of giving when 100% we are taking.

That's why there is so much upset across the planet. The nature of all things seeks its own balance.
Those who can hold their drink seem to make it to a safe harbour. And those who can't or won't bend...well just look at our world presently. - Neville Williams

*DRINK, DRINK, DRINK..."  Song made famous by Mario Lanza's voice from the film "The Student Prince" (1954) 

(Edmund Purdom stars in the released film as Lanza walked off the movie during production. Poor petal. It wasn't a matter that Mario couldn't hold his drink but more a matter that he didn't know how to hold his drink! Perhaps he needed to listen more to the message the song contained?

The song itself has some real gusto. The way life should be. So camp! - N.

Celebrate life!

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IT'S ABOUT HELPING TO PUT A BETTER BALANCE IN LIFE

Coming February 2027 

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🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION  Ed. No. 186

 - OUT CLUBBING ON OXFORD STREET

SODOM IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER

PIC: MAGNIFIC

TALK ABOUT SMASHING OUR OWN MIRROR

The other day I was out clubbing on Oxford Street and in the lounge/cafe area of this club a television series from American Cable TV was being streamed.

I've seen some rubbish TV being aired over the years (as well as much quality programming) but this series takes the cake. There was not one redeeming aspect of this show that could be considered justifiable other than perhaps its high technical production values, really. 

I'm no prude I have a reasonably open mind to most things but this was just atrociously shallow and self serving pap. Serious money had been spent here to make it look surface glossy but the substance or gist of it was about showing how low us humans can really sink in our outlook, values, mores, shallowness and disregard for one another.

So what is it that has so many of us hanging out to consume the bad stuff about us?

There couldn't be a growing market to feed those who enjoy watching others suffer could there? Romans and Christians stuff. Cos' that's what this show is about i.e. dominating people enjoying putting down others. "Fully sick" in the truest meaning of the words. We're living in a world now where 'stupid' is increasingly the norm. Like senseless chooks running around without heads (or hearts) in the right connected place.

In discussion with a friend I ventured the comment that in some twisted way is it that we feel better about ourselves when seeing others who are clearly "badder" or worse off than us? My friend said for some the story is perhaps a cautionary tale? Some might learn something! Maybe.

Or perhaps what viewers learn is that this behaviour is acceptable when it isn't.

Truly this show was ingratiating self indulgence playing to the worst in us. It was profiting on the attraction of the negative within us. It was almost the stuff of 'Sodom & Gomorrah'. 

I didn't catch the title of the show and have no desire to do so. But I did look around the venue and there was this magnetic participation of some members of the audience who clearly knew the characters quite well and were hanging out for the next nasty thing the lead actors could impact on others in the cast most of whom were just as bad or portrayed as hapless victims.

This is pillar of salt stuff. 

This show didn't outrage me. It just made me feel sad for our humanity.

It is acknowledged that the soundtrack to all our lives is the battle between the light and the dark. We should expect to see storylines that overarch the full ambit of existence on the planet but with this TV series the dark was diminishing too muchie of our light.

How low can our humanity sink?

We'd want to be very aware of the type of light that can be the response to this sort of stuff. 

It's timely for readdressing respect for our own lives.  - Neville Williams

Celebrate life!

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IT'S ABOUT HELPING TO PUT A BETTER SELF AWARENESS ON THE AGENDA

Coming February 2027

". . . Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, 
Everything that's wonderful is sure to come your way 
When you're in love to stay. . . ."

                                                                        - LESLEY GORE (1963)

                                                                                            Interesting to read so many cynical comments 

                                                                                      about this Song on the internet.

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🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION  Ed. No. 185 

- ENJOY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL ...

ENJ🌺Y S🌼METHING BEAUTIFUL

(Put some colour in your life.)

"Pippin's Poppies" (2021) [Reworked 2026] / Artist: Neville Williams ©️Arts Law Australia

For further details about this artwork go to:-

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...INSTEAD OF FOCUSSING 

ON ALL THE NUMBERS

From: Neville Williams 

Subject: HAPPINESS IS NOT AN ATTRIBUTE OF NUMBERS

Date: 1 June 2026 at 12:46:13 pm AEST

To: The Editor THE AUSTRALIAN 

Dear Editor,

HAPPINESS IS NOT AN ATTRIBUTE OF NUMBERS

Chris Mitchell’s article goes ballistic on Jim Chalmer’s budget. (“Labor’s budget dumps nation on precipice” The Australian Newspaper/Media 1 June).

All of this wailing and scaremongering is becoming tedious. If we are going to continue to go through hard times then we just have to accept this, not whinge about it, and get on with life.

I can’t elucidate like Mr. Mitchell in economics or numbers it’s not my thing. 

But what I do understand is that human beings across political affiliations are not living sustainably and it looks to be that nature is placing us all under correction. The bleating no matter whether it comes from conservatives or socialists is evidence of a child country that still needs to mature into a Nation.

We never seem to be able to get the balance right. Life though surely is not meant to be about constantly being at loggerheads with fellow human beings. That’s not living that’s existing.

We humans need to accept that it’s time for us all to grow a little. But more than some are just so convinced that they are so right in their cemented views that it’s the very thing that makes them so wrong.

A little kindness and a little self discipline are both factors when in balance that make life worth living.

Talk all the figures you like but our humanity is disconnected from itself presently and we need to find our way home.

Happiness is not an attribute of numbers.

Regards, Neville Williams

AND ONE MORE THING

 

From: Neville Williams 

Subject: THE SOLUTION IS TO CHANGE OUR VALUES

Date: 31 May 2026 at 1:30:47 pm AEST

To: The Editor THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 

Dear Editor,

THE SOLUTION IS TO CHANGE OUR VALUES

Victoria Devine’s article (“Beware of financial burnout” Sun Herald/Money May 31) about all of the financial pressures we are under can be remedied by changing our values. I mean we created this economic rationalist, globalised, consumerist aggressively competitive culture of wannabe winners that has brought along with it Everest sized neuroses without truly making us any happier. 

I’ll venture an opinion that we are not even one iota more happy than when cave men and women roamed the planet.

Time for a “see change” (sic).

We have become addicted to a false reality.

Burst the fantasy bubble and come down to earth.

We need to find the courage to live from a deeper place within ourselves.

Regards, Neville Williams

Celebrate life!

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FOR THOSE WHO CONSIDER LIFE IS MORE THAN ABOUT MONEY ...OR FAME

"I need to laugh, and when the sun is out
I’ve got something I can laugh about
I feel good in a special way
I’m in love, and it’s a sunny day
Good day sunshine
Good day sunshine
    Good day sunshine..."

                                                                - THE BEATLES (1966) 

                                                                                                from the "Revolver" album

Coming February 2027

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  🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION  Ed. No. 184 - OUR DIZZY WORLD

LEADERS WE DESERVE

GIF: Giphy

OUR DIZZY WORLD

So much we are in a state of flux that now our “Faith in (the) police and justice system is plunging”. (Sydney Morning Herald 26 May Page 1)  

 
So what is really going on?    

If we are losing faith in our institutions what next? …losing faith in our humanity? 
Or perhaps losing faith in ourselves?  

Time to start looking at the big picture again.  
We need to put some energy into asking some big questions… like who are we?, where are we heading? and where do we want to go? 

 

And then we need as individuals to create the conscious steps towards making our better life happen.

⬅ WE ARE THE LEADERS OF OUR OWN LIVES.   

(PAINTING IN PROGRESS)   

It doesn't begin in places like the White House in Washington. It begins in our own homes and backyards. That's where the clean up needs to occur. Then we'll get the leaders we deserve rather than have the leaders we deserve!

Our obsession with cost of living, housing, fuel, politics, money and “stuff” generally would all better fall into its rightful place if we chose to take the time to understand our foundational connection - OUR REAL HOME. 

Leaders all (all of us), we need to stop and reflect for just a moment in our times and re-evaluate.  

But self reflection is nowhere near the table let alone on the agenda as the priority in this dizzy unfulfilled world. Making it so would help us all. Wouldn't it? - Neville Williams

 

Celebrate life!

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"Here comes the sun, doo-doo-doo

Here comes the sun

And I say, "It's all right”

 Little darlin’

It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter

Little darlin’

It feels like years since it’s been here…”

                                                 - THE BEATLES (1969) Abbey Road Album

Coming February 2027

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  🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 183

- FISHIN' FOR LOVE

SEEKING “IT”

FISHIN' FOR LOVE

So many people fish outside of themselves for 'love'.

It's the prime motivating force that gets us out of bed every day.

In everything we do and say we search for "it".

The very reason that the world is in the state it is 

is because we think we are going to find "it" outside ourselves.

We're tripping over ourselves to try and find it 

in a bigger slice of the cake.

And people call "it" by so many names. 

Money, fame, the girl or guy with the blue eyes, 

the job that is going to deliver for me, 

the achievement in winning that race, a particular belief system. 

There's plenty of ways we "think" we are going to find love.

And many don't call the thing they are looking for "love". 

It might be 'peace' it might be 'happiness' it might be 'joy' it might be called 'the answer'. 

Love is only another name for 'it'.

What people will do for it on the outside at times is unbelievable, 

sometimes even unspeakable.

The never ending unconscious and unrequited quest to have “it”

has humanity tying itself into knots of unhappiness.

A person blaming another for not fulfilling imagined dreams 

or mind created expectations of the world and those around us 

only creates disappointment and trouble.

Is this "false trail" starting to make us a tired and disconnected caricature of what humans are meant to be? We are meant to be human 'beings' rather than human 'doings' aren't we?

But the journey begins on the inside 

to find what most are looking for on the outside.

Love is the very thing that keeps us alive.

Know it and you've found your own enlightenment.

YOO are the only other friend you truly need.

It is a puzzle as to why we are not all 

consciously on the journey within inside? - Neville Williams

Celebrate life!

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"Let the Sunshine in." - Hair (1967) 

Coming February 2027

  

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