blogging – The Looking Glass

An exercise in Perspective

He didn’t write, if you could call it that, for adulation, sympathy, acceptance or even to be liked. It was just coming from a place of brutal honesty, a perspective tempered by all the experiences in his life that bore him to where he was now. A friend said to him in a long andContinue reading “An exercise in Perspective”

Loser!

Why is everyone so afraid of being a loser? I’ve been a successful loser for the majority of my adult life, the expectations of boarding school that started at age thirteen faded away into insignificance in early adulthood. Primarily based in Australia from then on I always wanted to go back ‘home’ ie Papua NewContinue reading “Loser!”

Journeys

Reading another blog as I tend to do in my spare time when I can concentrate I came upon the Theseus paradox ,Theseus being the founding King of Athens who after many moons sailing the seas returned. The wooden boat he started out with had had all its parts replaced with new ones so essentiallyContinue reading “Journeys”

To Everyone Reading

Thank you to all my followers, those who have read some of my blog posts and everyone else. I hope this rapacious virus (COVID – 19) leaves yourselves and the one’s you love alone. If not so lucky please know that there is an eighty percent recovery rate. It has been a joy participating inContinue reading “To Everyone Reading”

COVID-19

There, I’ve said it! The elephant in the room. I spoke to my General Practitioner (GP) yesterday about it and I asked if there was any advice he could give on it and he told me that pretty much everyone would get it in varying degrees. He added that the government was hoping that aContinue reading “COVID-19”

Sunlight

The afternoon early autumn sunlight at my back, the weather turned mercifully cool, thank God for small mercies. I was reading a blog and the blogger basically stated that they would do nothing but post positive content. Then I thought about this for a little while, true there is a tsunami of negative content andContinue reading “Sunlight”