The lost generation
When I see an unusual familiar name in the news, I think, “Oh that must be the daughter (or son) of someone who I once knew”. Turns out, these days, it’s usually a grandchild.
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History
Eyes wide closed
Having an online map of bushfires in this state, constantly updated, is good because it keeps you informed about what is burning. It is bad because it keeps you informed about what is burning.
General Donald J. Trump
Viewed from afar, in ignorance, really, and with no dog in the hunt, no skin in the game, no horse in the race, it seems to me that America has recently refought her Civil War, but this time the South won.
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The drumbeat of hooves
Every morning I awake wondering if this is the day a million red horses of the apocalypse will come galloping over the western hills.
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Wasn’t me
When did we decide, as a species, that this planet should be run by Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, and a former Reality T.V host?
Paradox
If I had known then what I know now, I would have done some things differently, would have done different things. But then I wouldn’t have known the same things now as I knew just a moment ago.
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
Believe it or not
Convince someone to believe in an imaginary creature who lives in the sky and takes an interest in the outcome of football games and the purchase of lottery tickets and the number of survivors in airplane crashes, and you can get them to believe in anything.