Refugee
A female Magpie with a sore leg has taken up residence in our garden, using it as a place of sanctuary.
poetry
Destiny
A snake, after spending all winter in boring hibernation welcomes the Sun and warm ground of Winter only to be smashed on the road by a car.
But not for long
An eagle circling on the morning air, waiting to bring to one rabbit the ultimate wake up call.
He who laughs last
Laughter is the best medicine if you have something to laugh about and don’t have anything wrong with you.
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All my troubles seemed so far away
When you are young you measure time in hours and days. In midlife you think in terms of months and years. Late in life you think at least in decades, and, horrifyingly often, a half century seems like a convenient measurement for events that seem like only yesterday.
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Villains of the peace
People we think are bad people when we are young turn out, when we are old, to have not been bad at all, compared to the really bad people we met through the rest of our lives.
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Uncle Scrooge
We think people who are grossly overweight should lose weight because it is bad for their body. We think people who are drug addicts should give up because it is bad for their brain. But we think people who are grotesquely rich should get more money even though it is bad for their soul.
All creatures
A lifetime caring for animals is a life well lived. A lifetime killing animals not so much.
Two roads diverge
For some life is like a stroll down a country lane, pausing here and there to smell the flowers or hear a bird singing. For others life is like a walk down a city road battling crowds of people jostled and pushed, ears deafened by noise. Sadly the road you take is decided for you
And then acquire followers
There is no idea so extreme, so mad-brained, so far removed from reality, so damaging to human beings, so damaging to the planet, that someone, somewhere, won’t accept it as gospel truth.
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