Is there part of my body, in old age, that hasn\’t had some past medical problem, or which doesn\’t have a present medical problem? If I have missed any, in my morbid accounting, they will soon be having future medical problems
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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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In poets corner after seeing doctor for checkup – 2 weeks since operation, and almost…human again.
… is prologue. My book concerning fire in the Australian environment, extinction of the megafauna, and Indigenous interaction with the environment in general (and in total opposition to the works of Flannery, Pascoe and Gammage, among others), is available online. https://www.routledge.com/The-Pure-State-of-Nature-Sacred-cows-destructive-myths-and-the-environment/Horton/p/book/9781865081076 All my individual publications in this field (and others) are available free online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Horton9
I just can\’t remember whether it\’s my short term memory or long term memory that has gone.
Memories are unmade of this Read More »
When times are out of joint, and people sense that democracy can be trumped, fascists emerge from under rocks, from dark alleys, from the woodwork, from mum\’s basements, sniffing the air, noses twitching, ready for new opportunities.
USA was once an amalgam of Thomas Jefferson\’s America, and of Abraham Lincoln\’s America, and of John F Kennedy\’s America. USA is becoming an amalgam of Adolf Hitler\’s Germany, and the Taliban\’s Afghanistan, and of Atwood\’s Gilead
Rupert Murdoch\’s America Read More »
Do the people you remember with pleasure from your past, feel the same pleasure when they remember you, and picture the same moments?
You must remember this Read More »
I have never yet heard, or seen, or read anything said by a religious believer that makes any sense at all.
Twenty five years ago, my friend gave me a tree seedling, that had grown where we both worked, as a start for my new garden. It has outlived him by ten years, and will outlive me by one hundred years.
