” Night has fallen and I’m lying awake, I can feel myself fading away -” Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen on the soundtrack of the movie. I am one of the invisible now like the Bob Dylan song ‘Rolling Stone’ “- You’re invisible now, you’ve got no secrets to conceal! – “,. ” –Continue reading “Witches Coven”
Category Archives: Quotes
‘Modern Experience’
“That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grew-and grew-” From Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak which I came across as an adult while I was living in my mothers village in Papua New Guinea. The book had been bought many moons ago for one of my siblings as aContinue reading “‘Modern Experience’”
Election Day
Yes it’s the election we had to have, COVID – 19! What COVID – 19!? After all who will be our Mayor and Councillors? The world doesn’t stop turning just because of a pesky viral outbreak. Bins have to be collected and parking fines issued. Remember voting is compulsory which brings to mind a quoteContinue reading “Election Day”
Beautiful Day
He went on to the balcony and sat down the chair closest to the air-conditioning unit. It was he decided a beautiful day and he was on the way to being happy. Tiny white clouds in the distance of an azure blue sky. Various birds in full throated offerings to the sun god in allContinue reading “Beautiful Day”
Definition of a Life.
A particular set of circumstances may influence you but they do not define you as a person. Too often I see people, myself included, settle for their allotted pigeon hole in society. It’s comfortable, you know the material off by heart, you don’t have to do much. You end up playing the stereotype, it’s beenContinue reading “Definition of a Life.”
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel!
And other exercises in futility.. My friends father used to say that to him, often times I will object to what someone has said or written. Then clouded by emotion I respond in a verbose fashion and then when the clouds have cleared I realise that what they have said or written is true. ItContinue reading “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel!”
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Or the literal translation “Who will guard the guards themselves?” attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal in his Satires. It was originally used in the context of female fidelity in a marriage but I prefer the literal translation. I interpret it this way, who is guarding the guard when there are no guards around takeContinue reading “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Morning World
The good people of the neighborhood were going to work to the backing track of birds chirping their hello’s to each other and the hum of vehicular traffic. A motorbike rumbled past. The lady next door pulled up on the road below the balcony. Another twenty four, wouldn’t mind putting on Etta James’s ‘At last’Continue reading “Morning World”
“Ignorance the oppressor,Vigilance the Liberator.”
Translated from the New Zealand Maori Language. “Sometimes, I go about pitying myself, While I am carried by, The wind, Across the sky.” Chippewa Song.
The Looking Glass 