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Limerence – The Science of Falling In Love

If you know what the word limerence means then please forgive me while I explain for everyone else. Limerence is the psychological term for that dreamy state we float around in when we first fall in love with someone. The early stages of attraction and infatuation where we continually think about the object of our [...]

October 24, 2007 Things n Stuff! 12 Comments

Blog Action Day – Reuse & Recycle

This is the day that you might feel another shift in the Universe. Just like when The Stern Report was published, Al Gore released ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and Tim Flannery was named Australian of the Year. This is another major event that will ensure that environmental issues have a loud and very mainstream voice.
Climate Change [...]

October 15, 2007 Green & Gorgeous, Things n Stuff! 0 Comments

Will Carbon Trading Save the World?

Firstly, congratulations on the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I’d say he’s pretty damn happy he didn’t win that election now – I know I’d certainly rather be remembered for a Nobel Prize than Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
#2 in the Blog Action Day Environmental Issues Series

October 13, 2007 Green & Gorgeous, Things n Stuff! 0 Comments

You Don’t Win Friends With Salad…or Global Warming

In the lead up to Blog Action Day this is the first of our posts on Environmental Issues.
Last year’s Stern Report on the economic cost of Climate Change gave many world leaders a whole new position on environmental issues. The realisation that they were not just talking to a bunch of treehuggers about the [...]

October 11, 2007 Green & Gorgeous, Things n Stuff! 0 Comments

Blog Action Day – Do You Have Quality Content?

Having the theme of Environmental Awareness made it a no-brainer for Gorgeous Things to be involved. We hope you’ll join us and add to the 7,500 blogs already involved.
Over the next few days we’ll be posting some original and highly topical articles here on the Gorgeous Things blog that you may like to use as [...]

October 9, 2007 Green & Gorgeous, Things n Stuff! 0 Comments

Meditation & Mindfulness – Ajahn Brahm is the Monk to Teach You

A few years ago I went along to a talk by Ajahn Brahmavamso on ‘Buddhism and Science’ at my meditation centre Bodhikusuma in Sydney. I’d been attending the meditation centre on and off for about a year or so at the time but was lacking a little on my focus towards practising my meditation. I [...]

October 7, 2007 Things n Stuff! 0 Comments