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Saturday 27 July 1974- Saturday 27 July 2024
Ceremony at St Osburg's Catholic Church, Coventry
Reception at the Blackdown, Royal Leamington Spa
With thanks and gratitude to Rosemary Grossman for the artwork and calligraphy
I Am Because We Are
‘If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.’- Meister Eckhart
‘i am so glad and very, i am through you so i’ -e.e. Cummings
We are Grateful for the Gift of Life, Growing Old Together and Giving Thanks for our Golden Wedding Anniversary
“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”- W. Somerset Maugham in his manifesto for life, The Summing Up
‘Love is the bridge between you and everything.’- Rumi
“Our own life has to be our message”- Thich Nhat Hanh
“Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness.”-Brother David Steindl-Rast
Today we are full of joy and happiness, words cannot explain.
We are grateful and give thanks for all our blessings.
We give thanks for our Golden Wedding Anniversary, for our life journey together. We give thanks for the moments of joy and the simple pleasures of life. We give thanks to those who continue to love us, even though at times we may not be a worthy recipient of that gift.
We give thanks to our loving parents, cherishing our growing up days in loving families.
We give thanks for our two loveliest sons, Kevin and Paul, the joys of our lives.
We give thanks for our loveliest daughter-in-laws, Sarah and Katie, sweetening our lives.
We give thanks for our gorgeous little princesses, our granddaughters, Robyn, Ivy, Isabel and Poppy, brightening and shining hope into our lives.
We give thanks for our extended families and friends.
We give thanks for our education, careers, what we believe, and what we do.
We give thanks for our retirement days together, helping and supporting each other.
We give thanks for the love of wanderlust, all the travels we have done, the countries we have lived in, the places we have seen, the inspiring friendships we have made, the wisdom we have discovered and the hospitality and love we have received.
We give thanks for all we have. These are the precious gifts we have received. Long may it be so.
Kamran and Annie
Please enjoy the memories in the pictures from our wedding album.
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Loneliness: The Silent Pandemic
All Together. All Connected. But All Isolated, Separated and Alone
The message is clear: We must create a path to human connection and interaction, if we care about humanity, civility, health and wellbeing.
Lest it has been forgotten, artificial/virtual relationships aren’t the cure for loneliness - they’re a symptom of it.
Illustration by Chloe Cushman. Photo credit:NBC News
Preface
From time immemorial the yearning for meaningful and shared togetherness has always been powerful. This is what makes us human.
But, today, in this digital/virtual world, I am worried about lonely educators and students, lonely politicians and lonely economists, lonely technology/ IT/computer games designers and developers, lonely children and lonely youth, lonely nurses and doctors, lonely artists and filmmakers, lonely parents and grandparents,...lonely people everywhere…beautifully summed up by the Beatles in Eleanor Rigby:
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
The loneliness epidemic is the blight on our humanity
Rethinking Loneliness: Harnessing New Approaches
A retired academic economist trying to explain how modern life is making us so lonely.
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As the complexity of my life grew, I discovered a gem: The key to Happiness is a simpler living, when life becomes all about finding joys in the simple pleasures of life, being content with solitude, quiet, contemplation, the awe of the daily sunrise and sunset, savouring the moment, the centrality of family and friends, the anchors that have kept me afloat in often stormy and challenging seas.
The wisdom and the healing power of simplicity: The day I discovered the wisdom of William Morris
William Morris, photographed by Frederick Hollyer in 1884. Photograph: © National Portrait Gallery, London
Nota bene
I had heard about William Morris, but I knew next to nothing about who he was. I can vaguely remember years and years ago visiting an old house in Coventry. I commented on an old-looking, but amazingly beautiful wallpaper in the hall and the landing. Our guide told me it was by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts Movement, you know! That was it!
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- A moment that changed me: The day I discovered that indeed small is beautiful
- A moment that changed me: The day I saw the ruins of Coventry Cathedral
- Reimagining trust and trustworthiness at Davos Forum
- Economics as Enabler and Economists as Empowerers of the Good Life and the Good Society