Bearded in his den
A goatee tells you a great deal about a man; none of it is good
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Tracks and Traces
We like to visit places where the famous have lived, worked, fought, thrived, died. Like to imagine we are walking where they walked sitting where they sat seeing what they saw. And not just the famous but places of our own family\’s past. Here a grandfather was born there a great-grandmother died, over this way
My way or the highway
Looking back from the high vantage point of old age the road you took, whether more or less travelled, seems like a highway carrying you straight from birth to, well, to the opposite of birth. But if you examine the route carefully, magnifying glass to old eye, you see the fractal pattern of blind alleys,
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Count the candles
One of the hardest things to deal with in a human life is to accept, believe, that you are actually the age you are, whatever age that is.
Planet Earth – love it or leave it
The world, and all the wonderful species of plants and animals uniquely evolved on this planet over billions of years, is being destroyed in a few decades to make a small number of people obscenely rich.
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Play up, play up …
American politics is a game for gentlemen played by thugs. [Rugby: a game for thugs played by gentlemen; Football: a game for gentlemen played by thugs]
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