Age old
When you are young you think, wrongly, that your current pleasant state of health and fitness and mental acuity and a sense of boundless possibilities in the life ahead, will last forever. When you are old the opposite of all that is true.
anxiety
Fitness
Reading about D-Day the 6th of June 1944 again to mark the 80th (!) anniversary. The initial stages featured paratroopers and gliders. These planes were full of professional soldiers who had spent the previous two years getting supremely fit and training with equipment. Many of the gliders and transports were hit by flak and simply
Early warning
Advance notice of my new book here – a long time (23 years) coming, but I have had a few roadblocks to overcome – https://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/3057/David+Horton+%2F+Hammering+on+the+mind%27s+door Publication date set for 14 October. I don\’t know whether you can advance order. Perhaps you could let me know in comments here.
Answer: Life
Question: What do you call it when you confidently bid \”Four No Trumps\” and fail to take a trick?
Tree rings
Twenty five years ago, my friend gave me a tree seedling, that had grown where we both worked, as a start for my new garden. It has outlived him by ten years, and will outlive me by one hundred years.
Pressure point
Comes a time in everyone’s life when the most thrilling event of a week is not a party or a present or promotion or lottery win, but just a low blood pressure reading for once.
Boogey Man
Anxiety is a monster hiding around every corner, under every bed, in every unopened cupboard, on sunny days and dark nights, in Winter and Spring, in happy memories and sad memories, and I can never say “Boo Monster”.
4 am
It would be good, would it not, to live in moments, completely, and not try to anticipate and retrospect every last heartbeat each night
Fresh air
I was not aware of taking my first breath and I will not be aware of my last, but all the others were precious.