300 years of St Pauls.

Whether you live in London or not, St Paul's cathedral is probably familiar to you. It's one of the iconic buildings in London and can be seen from quite a few places in our city, very clearly standing out on the skyline.

This year is St Paul's 300 anniversary and in November the building will be let up and will also have words projected onto the building's dome.

The question, put by artist Martin Firrell is 'What makes your life meaningful? and the words you use will be the words projected. You can submit your own words by going to http://www.blogger.com/www.stpauls.co.uk and clicking on 'The Question Mark Inside'.

St Paul's is one of the sights I am often drawing people's attention to as we walk in London and is very clear from the Thames Path which we are walking at present.

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'It’s always so lovely to read your newsletters! I already feel more active in spirit if not in body!!' - Rachel Daniel, Regional Director – The Athena Network. www.theathenanetwork.com

Thank you Rachel for your lovely feedback, useful as always. It's so important we get it and even when not as positive as this, it helps us amend, rethink, build and develop. I am open to all the feedback anyone wants to send my way.

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Are you the 10th?

Read this and wanted to share it with you.

For every 9 people who denounce innovation, only one will encourage it. For every nine people who do things the way they have always been done, only one will ever wonder if there's a better way. For every nine people who queue in front of a locked building only one will ever go round and check the back door. Our progress as a species relies squarely on the shoulders of that tenth person. The nine are satisfied with things they are told are valuable. Person 10 determines for himself what has value.

Za Rinpoche and Ashley Nebelsieck in the Backdoor to Enlightment.

Have a read at this...

After posting all my photostoday, I just came across this article and wanted to draw your attention to it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081902703.html?hpid=news-col-blogs

I can totally agree with loads of what is being said as I thought it was a fabulous place but I don't have anything to compare it with so nice to hear from someone who does.

Prepare to be inspired...and humbled

Every so often someone who does something that really makes the rest of us think and this is one of those situations....

Most of us remember the suicide bomb attacks on London tube trains and buses on July 7, 2005. It was the day after my 47th birthday and also the day after London won the right to host the Olympics in 2012. I remember how happy London had been and how everyone was celebrating and the kids who live close were planning how they could be involved. It was then so hard to comprehend how this could all be so short lived as London watched in horror as the news unfolded.

One lady, who was the last person to be pulled alive from a Piccadilly tube train travelling between Kings Cross and Russell Square was Gill Hicks. An Aussie, Gill lost both legs in that attack but has just completed a 30-day trek which saw her walk from Leeds to London, a distance of 435 km on her prosthetic limbs.

After arriving in Trafalgar Square on Sunday, Ms Hicks said: "All of us stepped into this journey with great faith and great belief that humanity would carry us through from town to town and that's exactly what happened. "For me to walk from Leeds to London is probably the single most difficult thing I could ever have imagined. "I still can't quite believe that I have achieved it but I never gave up because of the people that never gave up on me."

Way to go, Gill. You are an inspiration to us all.