Biggest losers
The Human Race is in a reality show whose aim is to discover its most stupid members and for which there are no prizes.
poetry
The red Porsche
You will find it is best, all things considered, to get your mid-life crisis out of the way as early as you can. Old age crises are not a pretty sight.
Relativity
Time goes slowly – waiting for Xmas; sitting in a dentist’s chair; at a family party; waiting for exam results; waiting for biopsy results, but it never goes more slowly than when you contract Shingles
Grey matter
My world is full of black and white birds today. Magpies and Butcher Birds and Pee Wits and Willy Wagtails and Currawongs. Odd then that I usually think in shades of grey.
But he survived
A magpie just hit the window – thump! – an awful whack. Flying along with your family in the morning light, singing, not a care in the world, when suddenly, unseen, an obstacle nearly breaks your neck. Much like the course of human life.
Learn to suck eggs?
So, you can grow new brain cells even when you are ninety? But what are you going to do with them?
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All the birds
It does my heart good to see wrens and magpies, and parrots and butcher birds, and pigeons and honeyeaters, all flying and singing, in the morning light.