Villains of the peace
People we think are bad people when we are young turn out, when we are old, to have not been bad at all, compared to the really bad people we met through the rest of our lives.
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Uncle Scrooge
We think people who are grossly overweight should lose weight because it is bad for their body. We think people who are drug addicts should give up because it is bad for their brain. But we think people who are grotesquely rich should get more money even though it is bad for their soul.
All creatures
A lifetime caring for animals is a life well lived. A lifetime killing animals not so much.
Two roads diverge
For some life is like a stroll down a country lane, pausing here and there to smell the flowers or hear a bird singing. For others life is like a walk down a city road battling crowds of people jostled and pushed, ears deafened by noise. Sadly the road you take is decided for you
And then acquire followers
There is no idea so extreme, so mad-brained, so far removed from reality, so damaging to human beings, so damaging to the planet, that someone, somewhere, won’t accept it as gospel truth.
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Told you I was sick
Old age and hypochondria go together like Steptoe’s horse and carriage
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Springtime
When every curved brown stick on the ground looks like a Brown Snake freshly emerged from hibernation and hungry.
5pm, September 30, 2018
As I sit outside in the Sun, 400 million year old rock beneath my feet, guarding my chickens against Goshawk death from the blue sky, dozens of tiny dinosaurs fly past my chair – sparrowsaurs and wrensaurs. The setting Sun ends another day of my 27,000 days (or thereabouts) so far on this ancient planet.
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I should have known better
In later life you forget the results of old sporting contests that once seemed more important than life and death.
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