What was your favorite subject in school? I loved history until we did the Victorian era. Don’t know what it was about it but I just couldn’t get my head around it. Oddly, when I went back to university aged 40 the Victorian Era came up and I still can’t remember much about it. IContinueContinue reading “English”
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Clarence: Stateside
Well, well, well. Not such a close contest after all. I’m trying to think of one sensible thing to say that doesn’t include “excuse me what?!” Oddly I’m not as alarmed as I thought I would be, in some ways a rebel suits America’s personality. I’m sure that millions would disagree though. He’s one ofContinueContinue reading “Clarence: Stateside”
Improving
How do you manage screen time for yourself? I’m gradually weaning myself back onto books, and puzzles. We turn the tv off in the evenings, trouble is I’m still using the phone or my iPad. I’ve become addicted to a certain game that is incredibly expensive and designed to make you spend money, they changeContinueContinue reading “Improving”
Pardon?
Do you need time? What an odd question? Yes people often say that they need more time, but time is set in stone, so what they really need is to prioritise how they use it. It may be that they need to make a decision, they need more time to do that. But that’s notContinueContinue reading “Pardon?”
Today Matters
What will your life be like in three years? “Man plans, God laughs” comes to mind. With the teaching I’ve had in my life I make happiness my only aim, because its existence suggests that everything is wonderful. You can try to imagine the money you need, the lifestyle you want, and you’re told toContinueContinue reading “Today Matters”
World Fun Day
Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate. It would be compulsory to attend and big multi cultural, multi-gender groups would be a rule. Respect At the beginning we would start with my very favourite, simple, song: “How Could Anyone Ever Tell You?” By Karen Drucker: “How could anyone ever tell youYou wereContinueContinue reading “World Fun Day”
Blank Face Here
What are your favorite websites? I visit many websites. I use a lot of them, but: I’d rather have good shops again with human connections. I’d prefer to hold a book in my hands before I buy it, and I buy 90% of them in real shops. I appreciate being able to keep in touchContinueContinue reading “Blank Face Here”
Parenthesis of a Happy Child
I thought I knew who you wereand how it wasI thought I understoodeverythingI believed in the pastin the certainty of memoryYet you were layers within layersof life and meaningComplex in your simplicityconcave in self-beliefYou said you knew the waybut you were only trying To lead me safelyto an unknown destinationTheories authorised your existencelife made aContinueContinue reading “Parenthesis of a Happy Child”
Juxtaposition
Black and white determinationabove and belowgrey on grey truth in the space between“The proximity of luck”the man said“depends on ability”What does he know?Nearness involvesbeing contiguously near anotherin the vicinity of someone who wants to be thereThe closeness of peopledepends entirelyon hearing what we want to hear(No-one told me that at the altar)You can approach anContinueContinue reading “Juxtaposition”
Words: Life
LifeIs in the cornersIt is in the spaces between thingsIn the words we don’t say and the actions we don’t takeLife is inThe closed doors we open and the open doors we ignoreThe thoughts we don’t voice and the ideas we don’t pursueIn the wrong dreamsThe wrong roadsThe poor choicesOr the right onesLife is inTheContinueContinue reading “Words: Life”