Disappointment
How sad it is when we discover that a writer, an artist, an actor, a musician, whom we have admired and enjoyed, believes in an imaginary friend.
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Dread
Summer is coming like a giant steamroller, belching smoke and flame, sounding like a hurricane wind as it flattens all in its path
Valediction
I have never had, in a long life of creating ideas, and things, a serious review of any of it. No serious consideration of what was attempted, what were the problems, what was achieved. But then you don’t get that for your life itself I suppose,
I am ignorant and I vote
Sad that there are now so many people who take pride in their ignorance, where once it was a mark of a human being to take pride in knowledge, intelligence, and achievement.
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She shows them pearly white
The saying “as rare as hen’s teeth” only works if, now and then, a hen is born with teeth. But in this world, though not in the Age of Dinosaurs, the saying should be “as non-existent as hen’s teeth”.
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Stayin’ alive
Strange, I guess, how reluctant humans are to accept that the world managed quite well without them before they were born, and will manage just as well after they die. Strange too, I suppose, that in a world where all organisms die, after one day for a Mayfly, or five thousand years for a Bristlecone
No secret
The secret of success is rich ancestors, relatives in positions of power, and a friend who is a media baron
Oumuamua
Oh for heavens sake how can it already be nearly the end of twenty eighteen? The years are flashing past faster than that rock from another star that whizzed through our solar system to fast to be properly observed