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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science
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.
One moment
The other day, in a waiting room of a medical scanning centre, I saw two elderly ladies. One went in for her scan while the other waited anxiously. When she came out they held hands, talking quietly and seriously about what had been done, been said, staring into each other’s eyes. Then they left and
Thinking
There is, apparently no brain, however large, well adjusted, fast thinking, packed full of data, seemingly logical, that it can’t be turned into mush by the acquisition of an imaginary friend
Losing their marbles
Heaven save me from celebrities who seem quite sane and rational when young but who in old age become religious and move hard right politically and seem to be mulling over joining the Flat Earth Society
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Numbers racket
How many stupid and ignorant people does it take to destroy a planet? I guess we’ll find out pretty soon.
Hand on head instead?
What is it with Americans putting their hand on their heart at solemn occasions like the funeral of an ex-president? They do know, I suppose, that the heart is just a lump of muscle that circulates blood? I mean, we have known for five hundred years that the heart has nothing to do with emotions,
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Sparrow dreaming
I don’t mind sparrows though I guess I should. They didn’t ask to come to this alien continent, and they are trying to make the best of it.
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.
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,