How to be happy, according to the longest-running study of happiness (New Scientist, 9 Jan 23): … With more than eight decades of data at hand, what is the most important thing you have learned? The big, surprising takeaway is how much having warm connections with other people predicts how… Continue reading
Sophie told us today (4th Oct 2022): ‘our friend Ross, the other witness at the wedding, is currently in the US and told me yesterday he was at the border of Mexico and crossed briefly at Amisted Dam and felt compelled to put some flowers down for Ben. They weren’t… Continue reading
Dear Andy, family and friends, It is with the greatest sadness that we send you our condolences. The news of Ben’s death is heartbreaking. We remember Ben as a beautiful wee boy and an attractive young man. My fondest memories of him are at the ceilidhs held for Julian’s birthdays:-… Continue reading
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an Interweb for Ben… I (and some others) thought it might be a nice idea to have an email chain, group, web, network of Ben’s friends and family, of those who loved Ben and would like to, somehow, cradle and promote his continued existence, through a combination of the multitudinous… Continue reading
Tributes to Ben, with reflections (I will add to these over time…) Here are the tributes that were given for Ben at his funeral: Mother’s Tribute Father’s Tribute Family Tribute Friends’ and Colleagues’ Tribute Poems read out at Ben’s funeral: Distance – a poem by Ben To a Skylark –… Continue reading
A tribute to Ben Corser – the man, the legend Last week we learned the awful news that our fantastic associate Ben Corser was tragically killed in a shooting incident in Mexico. To say we are gutted is an understatement, and our thoughts are very much with his family and… Continue reading
To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!Bird thou never wert,That from Heaven, or near it,Pourest thy full heartIn profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higherFrom the earth thou springestLike a cloud of fire;The blue deep thou wingest,And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the… Continue reading
Friends’ and Colleagues’ Tribute (Kristian Kancleris) As inevitable as death is, it does not happen without life. And it is here, in our lives, on our own inescapable way to demise, it is here where we had brushed shoulders with Ben. Some only briefly, and some would actually brush shoulders… Continue reading