Ticking the boxes
Just saw an advertisement for an “award winning funeral company”. Wonder how they collect the votes?
Bon mots
Skin deep
Odd the number of religions to whom epithelial cells (skin, hair, beard) are far more important than brain cells.
Sick room
Watching America suffering from Trump is like watching an old friend stricken with cancer or a virulent bacterial disease.
Eye of the storm
My childhood home had a “lounge room”, a room in the centre of the house almost never used, but with the best furniture, rarely sat upon, the piano, not played, fallen silent, since my grandfather died, too young, too young, and the record player. It was, in theory, the place where important visitors could be
Out of the blue
Chickens keep their eyes on the ground as they work the soil scratch scratch scratch peck peck peck. Eagles keep their eyes on the ground watching the chickens as they work the soil oblivious to death from the sky. As are we.
Eye of the beholder
Rubber snakes are life-like enough to fool me and make me jump, but not good enough to fool the parrots who are eating my garden.
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Deceptive
I look at my hands, their backs an old man’s hands. I look at my feet, their toes an old man’s toes. I look at my face, its wrinkles show an old man’s face. But, I look in my mind, its curiosity is a young man’s still.
Congratulations
Once, when I was receiving a degree from a university, I was first up to the stage out of perhaps 100 degree recipients. I reached the Chancellor who handed me the piece of paper, shook my hand, and said “Congratulations, we have been following your career with interest”. “Following my career with interest”, wow, I
Smell the roses
You spend your early life doing things for the first time. You spend your late life doing things for the last time. In between you do a whole lot of things without really noticing. Sadly.