Past master
Writing my autobiography lets me rule a line under my past and decide what to do with my life as I approach three quarters of a century
poetry
Side effect
Who would have thought that a major effect of global warming would be a decrease in the intelligence of politicians?
Age related
Any day now, some day soon, the young people I see who are nurses, shop assistants, car mechanics, policemen; or who are pushing prams full of crying babies, are going to be old enough to be not my children, not my grand children, but my great grandchildren.
The road taken
I took the road less followed, and found land mines, trolls, bandits, potholes, mud patches, fallen trees, and then my car broke down. Next time my way is the highway.
Believe it or not
Once I was not a stamp collector, and an Atheist. Now I am a stamp collector, and an Atheist.
500 years? A thousand?
There should be a term limit set on how long some ancient, historical grievance can be used to justify slaughtering people today.
500 years? A thousand? Read More »
Age less
Reading the life stories of the famous achievers of the past and present, you reach a point where they broke through, became recognised, touched by genius, ranked among the immortals of literature, or science, or film, or art. But my breakthrough moments were papered over, muffled, erased from the historic photographs. So I remain disappointed
And don’t come back
Some days it can almost be a full time job, carefully removing spiders, insects, centipedes, and the occasional small lizard from the house they have somehow entered and then been unable to escape, like tiny burglars trapped by a deadlock.
And don’t come back Read More »
Cousins
I love it that I, distant descendant of a shrew, can hold, gently between my hands, a chicken, distant descendant of a dinosaur.