Battle stations
You don’t battle cancer, but you do battle side effects and after effects that are caused by cancer treatment.
cancer
Last orders please
Last school day, last work day, last drive, last sex, last walk, last outdoors, last room, last meal, last breath.
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Forewarned is…bad
It would be good, now and then, to have a visitor from the future drop in, say “Hi, what year is this?”, and, on being told, reply “Oh, well, it will all be ok in the end, you know.” But what if he just frowned, thoughtfully?
Black and blue Friday
We all know that Friday the Thirteenth is just another day, really. But it is good to be reminded, now and then, that our lives are subject to chance, accident, randomness, and that around every corner there may be a banana skin.
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A good day
However much I complain about the perils of old age, and I do, loudly, it is better than the alternative, much better.
One man in his time
We all, I think make the mistake, of confusing actors with the roles they play on stage. But we are all actors on the stage of life. Don’t confuse me with roles I play.
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Better late
I reached my seventies, it seemed, in a rush. Suddenly I was wandering in a forest of years: 71, 77, 73, 78, 74, and look, over there, at the edge of the forest, is 79. And I think, “I won’t be in this forest very long, for I am running through it. I should make
Turn back time
Wouldn’t it be good if we could go back in time at will, to any part of our lives, in turn, and fiddle, adjust, undo, redo, make better, make amends, set right, streamline, straighten course, enjoy, savour, say goodbye, say hullo, say thank you, all with the benefit of hindsight. Or would it?