A collection of articles designed to stimulate and make you think. The first considers that everyday topic of conversation - dreams. Why do we dream? What do dreams mean? For thousands of years people have been asking these questions. From recent research to pure speculation, dreams are analyzed with interesting results. In the second article I give a personal view on what it means to be English. Who are the people and what are the events that founded and moulded the English nation? And why is the English language spoken in so many other countries today? In Descent into Darkness, the subject of the environment is discussed and how human arrogance has so often led to trouble not just for our own species but for many other animals that we share the planet with. The fourth article deals with Cryptozoology - the study of rare and speculative animals like the yeti and others, like the thylacine that are supposedly extinct. The final article is about a special individual I met some time ago, a rare treasure of a person who had a wealth of stories and jokes inside her - at the tender age of 84. Mrs Fletcher reminded me just how much an individual matters - even in a world of 7 billion people.
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