Human beings are now commodities, you are born into a world of capitalism raised and indoctrinated to be servants of capitalism and then cast out into the world to be both exponents and consumers of capitalism for your working life. You are then left to essentially fend for yourself abandoned in your twilight years juicedContinue reading “What Price a life?”
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Hornet
While traipsing to the local post office, sweating profusely from the head to pick up some mail after a lengthy and tortured conversation on the phone en route,he arrived,turned to enter when something caught his eye. He glanced over…’hang on’ he thought, ‘he looks familiar’, ‘isn’t that Jeff’,’ Jeff Horn.’ It was and he caughtContinue reading “Hornet”
Tears from a star.
His senses returned and he gazed down the street between the houses that the sun was clinical in illuminating, he recalled the psalm -“and the foundations of the earth were laid bare at thy rebuke o lord, at thy blast of thy nostrils”. It always came to mind when he looked or walked around theContinue reading “Tears from a star.”
Apartheid.
Looking at it dispassionately, racism makes sense if one comes from a historically white country like The United Kingdom or any other European nation, having immigration forced onto them they have every right to be aggrieved. As do the Indigenous inhabitants of the country called Australia. It’s all very nice imagining that we are allContinue reading “Apartheid.”
The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole (as an adult)
For want of a better word, a follower, having never had one before a validation of sorts, a release as if the cares of the day had suddenly fallen from about him like a dark heavy cloak to the floor. Another human being from halfway around the globe, a far off land with different customs,traditionsContinue reading “The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole (as an adult)”
Boredom…
Wraith like boredom, the bane of my life but it’s how you deal with it that is important. A tactic is to accept that you are bored as frustration only worsens the affliction and expends too much energy. With all this interest around paleo diets it would be illuminating if we could go into theContinue reading “Boredom…”
Hello from Murri Country!
It’s a Sunday morning here in Brisbane, Australia, I’ve just had my coffee, breakfast, cigarettes and read the paper. The day ahead will be predictable, like all the others before it. Better predictable than unbound chaos, predictability is a good place , foundation to think and grow even if the boredom can overcome you atContinue reading “Hello from Murri Country!”
Reflections on a stone.
Another day and I thought I would type my thoughts down first before I read the Brisbane Times online paper, As I have done for many moons now. Life is so bittersweet I guess that is how you know you have or are living it. Mornings enveloped by a cloak of sadness, vague memories ofContinue reading “Reflections on a stone.”
Alt Right?
I guess that’s why I smoke, knowing that I wont live forever, it reminds me of simpler times when everyone wasn’t so obsessed with their health, diet and fitness. I don’t know there is almost a climate of fear around living. We will all die at some point and of course I know that ifContinue reading “Alt Right?”
Observations and Other Animals
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde.