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Last Minute Present for a 3 Year Old

Last Minute Present for a 3 Year Old Despite my best intentions I left getting a present for my 3-year-old nephew to the very last-minute. The reasons why this happens are endless but happen it does, here’s what I did about it. I found myself, the evening before last posting day, shopping in a well-known supermarket, were I remembered: NO PRESENT! Determined not to cave in and head for the toy aisle, I carried on with my shopping holding the intention that there would be something I...

We need…….or do we?

We need…….or do we? “We need a pencil-case for all the drawing stuff”. “Yes we do, I’ll get one next time I go shopping”   This is the very thinking needed to keep the wheels of the global consuming machine turning. I don’t want to be thinking like this, driven by a society and culture I don’t even agree with, but I am a product of my generation, brainwashed into thinking my wants are needs and that a little purchase here and...