I’ve always enjoyed British humor. Cutting, sardonic, even biting at times. It probably evolved from a World ruling Monarchy that now can barely keep its own house in order, leaving a crushed ego behind. The word Numpty is one of those sardonic British words that refers to an untalented beginner who insists on getting in…

“The trick, my dear, is not minding that it hurts.” Lawrence of Arabia

“The best way to overcome it [the fear of death]—so at least it seems to me—is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river: small…