There is an old I assume is Chinese saying, ” A journey of a thousand miles begins with a simple step.” Step.. Inside and sit comfortably on my couch. While I was out having my morning smoke on the balcony earlier, a lady wearing sunglasses came into my field of view. She stared at meContinue reading “A Thousand Miles”
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To Blog or not to Blog?
I guess its what you want to achieve when you start a blog, Some people want to build a brand and have thousands of followers. For me it’s the quality of the interaction. I like to learn like the rest of us about whatever damn fool topic that piques my interest. So what do IContinue reading “To Blog or not to Blog?”
Fundamentalism…
I have a friend who is a practicing Mormon who I occasionally go to for advice, he’s lived an awful lot of life in his years before adhering to his faith, being one year older than me, which is why I seek and value his counsel. He was relating to me a discussion he onceContinue reading “Fundamentalism…”
Ode to Matthew
I had a young friend named Matthew John Davies to everyone but to me he was Matt Man. We met at Tafe in two thousand and six, both doing the adult tertiary preparation course. It was almost time for computer class and he was sitting outside the computer lab on a brick horse shoe shapedContinue reading “Ode to Matthew”
Opinion
While flicking through the New Yorker magazine many moons ago I happened upon a cartoon illustration. It was of a group of people milling about a television crew while an overweight bald man, pushed through the throng. The caption was, “Let me through, I’m an opinionated bastard!”
Friday Night,
The whir of the balcony air-conditioner unit chops through the humid air, Friday night. The city should be awash with weekend revelers. A plane passing overhead, there’s a gentle breeze caressing the pine trees across the road. A car passes, the sound of a leaf tripping in the slip stream following, another plane jets northContinue reading “Friday Night,”
Delma.
I have never been physically violent with a woman although I have been emotionally manipulative, psychologically abusive and unfaithful in a previous relationship. It is frightfully easy to do. I tried to make amends after it was all over, my behavior was morally reprehensible and inexcusable at the time. I guess being in a foreignContinue reading “Delma.”
Tesler
It’s a sad day for all you bibliophiles out there, your savior -Larry Tesler, the inventor of cut , copy, paste , find and replace during his tenure at Zerox PARC beginning in the early nineteen seventies has died aged seventy four. After his pioneering work at Zerox PARC he subsequently was employed by Apple,Continue reading “Tesler”
Ennui.
As the morning wore on any illusions were dispelled by the humidity and occasional breakthroughs of fierce sunlight, it’s going to be a long day, as predictable as death and decay.A plane roars overhead, use your mindfulness skills you learnt in cognitive behavioral therapy a voice in your head extorts as you stare blankly atContinue reading “Ennui.”
The lighthouse.
Feeling as alive as a snake thats overdosed on a hot shot of heroin laced with fentanyl in the dead of a winters night. Another wander around the landscape this morning in supreme discomfort, it was like the radiated heat from an open blast furnace. Comfortable now, the newly installed split system air conditioner isContinue reading “The lighthouse.”
