Ageing hippy teacher. Coming from a very non religious family, my father often joked that he would have been an atheist if it didn't feel like he was making a religious stand point. I had no experience of religion until senior school when people actively wanted me to join a 'religon' or felt that I was lacking true direction in life. So I was polite (I was a very polite child then) read the books and was appalled by the things and acts that were committed in the name of the half dozen one true faith(s). Then I discovered meditation, Zen and Buddha and the rest is history as they say.

So cats, carpets and Kimonos are my hobbies and when I have to work its teaching boys with excess of hormones and a deficit of common sense. Eyes are blue and hair is apt to change!

The world is a harsh place but by our own action it can change for the better. We are not all called upon to great things, but all of us should be mindful to do the right things. A few seconds of thought is all it requires.