Would be noisy
I wonder if dinosaurs had a dawn chorus like the birds do?
Once
You can\’t cross the same river twice. Or see the same wave twice. Or the same sunset. Or the same cloud. And you can\’t live the same life twice.
Not Eden then
The seven plagues of this garden are rabbits, grasshoppers, slugs, rats, cockatoos, disease, drought.
Childish things
When you are a child you wish childhood was much shorter. When you are an old man you wish it had been longer. When you are a child you envy those a few years older than you, closer to adulthood. When you are an old man you envy those a few years younger.
Do battle
You don\’t battle cancer. But you do battle the side effects, physical and mental, of its treatment.
Turn the page
When faced with a maths exam at school I would stare blankly at the page, panic levels rising. A page full of incomprehensible symbols, equations, puzzles, conundrums. No way I could avoid getting them all wrong. No hope of getting a single one correct. Like doing the exam of life really.
Blue
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o\’er vales and fens, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of azure Fairy Wrens; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. …… For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They
Snowflakes are falling on my head.
Most thoughts, ideas, pensees, fall into the brain like individual snowflakes falling onto warm ground and instantly evaporating. But sometimes the snowflakes of an idea accumulate, and just beg to be made into a snowman.
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In proportion
Are the levels of stupidity, ignorance and malice higher among politicians than in the general public? Hmmmmm …. no, probably not (the politicians we deserve -), probably same proportion, but politicians have a much greater ability to hide these characteristics than the average. Before elections anyway.