Nor can an individual
No country can consider itself modern if religion plays a major part in the lives of its people.
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poetry
Yesterday
Politicians rely on the public having the memory span of an adult Mayfly. They are right to do so.
Invisible writing
The best poetry happens when poets know exactly what they mean but the reader hasn’t a clue.
Wages of sin
Amazing how arrogant most religious people are, thinking their strong, unfounded, belief in an imaginary being, demands that they control the lives of everyone else, and kill any who disagree.
Relative values
I try to save the lives of ants and beetles and butterflies; frogs and lizards and turtles and birds; and sheep and mice and kangaroos, when I can. Oh and people too, if needed.
Moments in time
One moment you’re secure in the cocoon of youth: no ailments, at home in your body, watching time pass so slowly, seeing old people as another species, knowing you will never change. The next moment you’re not.
I think not
Why would anyone build a house on top of a hill? Well, yes, no flooding, not much frost, good drainage, little fog. But, seriously, does all that make up for the constant wind?
Curses
More frightening hot weather is on its way. All you can do is hunker down, wait it out, hope for the best, fear the worst. And send a curse at those who have stopped all action to prevent climate change.
The tolling bell
I had a friend who didn’t make it to twenty. Another never reached forty. One more was gone before fifty. Finally there was the friend who fell short of seventy. I am closing fast on my next landmark of eighty years. Lucky. Sad.