All over the Universe, the small number of sentient species, in a handful of galaxies, have given up hope for the survival of the almost sentient species, Homo sapiens, which currently lives on a small planet, near a small star, on the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Does Bolsonaro not know that whatever remnant of the human race remains next century will curse his name in the same way that Hitler, Attilla, Genghis, Stalin, Pol Pot and Trump were cursed, or does he not care?
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The first thing to learn about stamp collecting is that nothing you own has any value. Also the last thing.
Death by cancer is: being pushed to the lunch table in a wheel chair when cancer-riddled bones won’t support you; measuring your days in teaspoons of morphine, carefully counted; carrying a rubber cushion to pad the pelvis from which all flesh has melted.
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“Religious cult” is a tautology; “Sustainable development” is an oxymoron.
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Do I really want to spend the declining years of my old age in learning all there is to know about collecting stamps?
I remember when I was young reading about two brothers, hoarders, who filled their house with newspapers, traversed by tunnels, which one day collapsed and killed them. In old age our minds are filled with the hoarded memories of a lifetime, ready to crush our spirit with their weight as we tunnel through.
At my age every day of the year is an anniversary of something or other, but mostly I no longer remember of what. Just as well, in many cases, sad loss in others, but I don’t get to decide which will come back to me with the sound of wind in the chimney, the taste
A windy day blows birds into the garden to swoop, glide and play, then blows them out again.
Let me get this straight, some people think that telling their baby that while they are asleep their cradle will crash to the ground when a bough breaks is a way of getting them to sleep?
