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Contentment: Like it or lump it.
Patanjali c. 400 BC “Like it or lump it”, my mother would say as I gazed dolefully at our evening meal. I was a none too impressed ten year old when she declared that the family was giving up meat and we would be living on bean stew and Sosmix for the coming years (for those of you who escaped eighties vegetarianism in Britain, Sosmix was the rather suspect clumpy, gooey, salty meat substitute of the era). It is only in my thirties that I have come to appreciate the wisdom i
Morven Hamilton
Mar 31, 20157 min read
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