Lessons from Thay | Soul Chocolate https://www.soulchocolate.org Chocolate for your soul Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:43:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 https://www.soulchocolate.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-SoulChocolateSiteIcon-32x32.jpg Lessons from Thay | Soul Chocolate https://www.soulchocolate.org 32 32 Stunned by the sound of silence: A French soldier’s story https://www.soulchocolate.org/stunned-by-sound-of-silence/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 12:02:09 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=555 HONESTLY, I NEVER thought I’d ever remember my kindergarten teacher again. She was an Anglo-Indian lady called Miss Tony, who wore little coloured dresses with matching lipstick, nail colour and hair bands. As five-year-olds, we ...

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]]> Having a bad day? Keep calm, a step at a time https://www.soulchocolate.org/having-a-bad-day-keep-calm-a-step-at-a-time/ Thu, 14 May 2020 10:40:50 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=525 ALL OF US HAVE bad days. Days when everything goes wrong. We wake up late for office. Drop runny egg yolk on an off-white shirt at breakfast. Find the car fuel meter showing empty. Get ...

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]]> Forgive & heal, despite poison sandwiches & dead babies https://www.soulchocolate.org/forgive-heal-despite-poison-sandwiches-dead-babies/ Fri, 08 May 2020 08:28:18 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=512 IF YOU’VE WATCHED Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, you may recall how difficult US Marine Ron Kovic finds it to forgive himself for accidentally killing a teammate during the Vietnam War. Or ...

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]]> Do the dishes… with a smile, not a snarl https://www.soulchocolate.org/do-the-dishes-with-a-smile/ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:09:50 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=498 THE NEXT TIME someone tells you to do the dishes, don’t grumble or snap or utter cusswords. Stay calm and sport a smile as you march towards the sink. For, you are in billion-dollar company ...

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]]> Love me or hate me, but try to understand me https://www.soulchocolate.org/love-me-or-hate-me-but-try-to-understand-me/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:54:51 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=485 I’M A LITTLE IFFY about sharing my thoughts on emotions such as love. Not surprising, is it, considering I’m a student of literature? I’ve read too much fabulous stuff to foolishly rush in where angels ...

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]]> Never give up, not even when bombs drop https://www.soulchocolate.org/never-give-up-not-even-when-bombs-drop/ Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:35:52 +0000 https://www.soulchocolate.org/?p=477 WHEN I RECENTLY reread The Old Man and the Sea, I doffed my hat to Santiago again. The old fisherman’s resilience in the face of suffering and his refusal to give in to despair are ...

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