Sparrow dreaming
I don’t mind sparrows though I guess I should. They didn’t ask to come to this alien continent, and they are trying to make the best of it.
Bon mots
Home alone
When I was young I was too embarrassed to invite friends home, thinking they would see the old furniture, the worn carpet, the odd books, the unappealing prints, the washing on the old clothes line, the unwashed dishes in the coldwater sink. It was only later in life that I came to realise everyone was
Of the people
Once upon a time to be a politician was to be the essence of the polis, the people, of being a human being. In these times it seems to be a politician is to be ahuman, distant from the polis, removed from humanity, removed so far indeed as to be inhuman.
Disappointment
How sad it is when we discover that a writer, an artist, an actor, a musician, whom we have admired and enjoyed, believes in an imaginary friend.
Dread
Summer is coming like a giant steamroller, belching smoke and flame, sounding like a hurricane wind as it flattens all in its path
Valediction
I have never had, in a long life of creating ideas, and things, a serious review of any of it. No serious consideration of what was attempted, what were the problems, what was achieved. But then you don’t get that for your life itself I suppose,
I am ignorant and I vote
Sad that there are now so many people who take pride in their ignorance, where once it was a mark of a human being to take pride in knowledge, intelligence, and achievement.
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She shows them pearly white
The saying “as rare as hen’s teeth” only works if, now and then, a hen is born with teeth. But in this world, though not in the Age of Dinosaurs, the saying should be “as non-existent as hen’s teeth”.
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