Always
The youngest in the room The smartest in the room The poorest in the room The happiest in the room The saddest in the room The oldest in the room The sickest in the room The deadest in the room
History
Directions
There is an old joke, where you ask some yokel “How do I get to xxxx?” and he replies “Well I wouldn’t start from here.” My life feels like that but in reverse – how did I get here from there?
But proportions matter
We all need to live simultaneously in past, present, and future.
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Lucky, lucky, lucky
To succeed in academic life you need three things – genius, hard work and luck. By far the most important of these is luck.
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Nor can an individual
No country can consider itself modern if religion plays a major part in the lives of its people.
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Yesterday
Politicians rely on the public having the memory span of an adult Mayfly. They are right to do so.
Invisible writing
The best poetry happens when poets know exactly what they mean but the reader hasn’t a clue.
Wages of sin
Amazing how arrogant most religious people are, thinking their strong, unfounded, belief in an imaginary being, demands that they control the lives of everyone else, and kill any who disagree.
Relative values
I try to save the lives of ants and beetles and butterflies; frogs and lizards and turtles and birds; and sheep and mice and kangaroos, when I can. Oh and people too, if needed.