I suppose,
for most people,
writing isn’t
like breathing.
Tag: literature
Where the living is easy
Biographies
give me the
comforting
feeling that life
is arranged in
patterns, has
structure, can be
understood
rationally, and
will turn out
all right
in the end.
Reality has a real bias
It seems
impossible to
get the
World’s media to
understand that
Game of Thrones
is not the real
world, but that
there is indeed
a real world which
is not a tv show.
With muffled drum
I wasn’t fond
of Notre Dame
as a building –
give me Chartres
any day – but so
sad to see all
that history
burning savagely.
But seriously,
grown men worked
there who believed
they had the
“Crown of thorns”?
Grey matter
My world is full
of black and white
birds today.
Magpies and Butcher
Birds and Pee Wits and
Willy Wagtails and
Currawongs.
Odd then that I
usually think in
shades of grey.
Life lines
Best write
your own
biography
before someone
writes it
for you
and gets
it wrong
That’s why the World’s a mess
The “Peter Principle”
says that in any
organisation, people
get promoted up to
one level beyond
their level of
competence, which
explains why the
organisations
eventually become
dysfunctional.
Seems to me the
human race has been
promoted beyond
its level of competence.
Drought
“Scattered showers”
says the forecast,
but as an old man,
in a dry year,
waiting for rain,
I have little confidence
they will scatter
over me.
When you begin
life your forecast
is for scattered
patches of good
fortune. But you
can no more control
their arrival
and departure
than you can
control Autumn
rain on your farm.
Disadvantage of hindsight
Searching for
your own name
on the internet,
with the help of
Mr Google,
is said to be the
result of vanity,
but more often,
I find, it stems from
masochism.
Now, where did I put that…
What a pity
each event in our
life isn’t tagged,
automatically,
with an ID code
so that we could
retrieve it, or not,
easily. Instead
mine seem to be
scattered all over
the floor like the
overflow from a
too small waste bin.
