Chuffed
Hey hey, the Choughs are back, ten of them, to dig up my garden and gladden my battered heart. But where have they been? Busy breeding I guess. Corcorax melanorhamphos
cancer
And of course I didn\’t
I once said to my doctor: \”I say there\’s always someone worse off than yourself\”. She said to me \”and do you find that helpful?\”
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An odd thought strikes me…
\”An odd thought strikes me:—we shall receive no letters in the grave\” (Samuel Johnson) It strikes me that there will be books written, music performed, art created, films directed, science discovered – that I will never know about.
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Pressure point
Comes a time in everyone’s life when the most thrilling event of a week is not a party or a present or promotion or lottery win, but just a low blood pressure reading for once.
But that was yesterday
Once upon a time I was much more than the sum of my ailments and side effects of medicines, but now I have no time left for anything else.
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Catch me if you can
Anxiety will cunningly disguise itself with the symptoms of heart disease and the cancers playing hide and seek with your mind.
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3 am
Monsters in the cupboard? Or monsters under the bed? No, the monsters in my body set off the night fears now.
Fresh air
I was not aware of taking my first breath and I will not be aware of my last, but all the others were precious.
Losers
The sign at the Supermarket checkout proudly said “new winners every day”, which is a much better deal than we all get at the Life checkout.