Friday Feeling

it's Friday- long day!! Busy week. So i did a quiz.. the issue now is how do I get the other 20% of life experience?

You've Experienced 80% of Life

You have all of the life experience that most adults will ever get. And unless you're already in your 40s, you're probably wise beyond your years.

How Much Life Experience Do You Have?

foxonpatio2.jpg- taken by David

foxonpatio2.jpg- taken by David
Originally uploaded by davida3.

OK- This is the closest this fox has come to our house in Dublin- and David, my son was there to take this picture.

China

I wonder sometimes about how and why we try to limit how we express ourselves.
Freedom of expression is one of the tenets of democracy and yet even in democracies we limit how people can do this. It seems that in so many countries this freedom is overtly curtailed. Today I got an email from a person whose pictures I have admired on Flickr: She said _ I have closed my account partly because Flickr is blocked in China.-

One of the most important things I have learned is that although I may not agree with opinions expressed by others, their right to express those opinions must be defended.Ok not such a huge insight- but in living that principle I think that it follows that I value the ideas and interpretations of others- and also feel that I can let them know how I agree or disagree with them.

So in my own life I agree with those who want to ensure that developing and developed countries improve their health outcomes but also realise that how I might want to do that may need to be informed by the opinions of others.....

AND FOR ALL THOSE IN CHINA WHO HAVE STOPPED POSTING PICTURES- WE NEED YOUR INSIGHTS