Suits me
Perhaps the time has come to shed my old image, starting over again and surprising all my friends, but no, on second thoughts, I have grown into my clothes like a second skin, and am too old to start changing now.
poetry
Best friends from 1945 to 2025
Sandy Pupsy Kimmy Millie Ziggy Jessie Buffy Lena Beau Oscar Violet
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May Day, M\’aidez
One April I was being born at the end of the second War to end all wars. This May a great friend is turning eighty and my grandson will be twenty one in this merry month. Meanwhile a new European war has erupted. What the hell has happened to me? And to the world?
Falling, falling
A positive covid test sets you on a journey jumping out of a plane wondering whether your parachute will open before you hit the ground
Play misty
Sometimes, early on a misty morning, the tangled threads of our lives seem to form a pattern. But the Sun soon puts a stop to that wishful thinking.
Morning has broken
Few things more pleasant, in old age or young, than sitting on a hill, on a clear, almost frosty morning, mist filling the valleys, and listening to a butcher bird song notes cascading through the silent air, while your dog sits, quietly, beside you.
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Everyone except
YouTube has revealed what a huge number of very strange people there are in the universe
Decline and Fall
Seeing myself in the mirror before and then after covid is like seeing the picture of Dorian Gray ageing in just four days instead of eighteen years
Soul empty
Humans have indulged themselves in wishful thoughts about death for fifty thousand years. Way past time we stopped.