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How fickle is existence?
It appears that about 5.6 million years ago, a flood of biblical proportions filled the present day Mediterranean sea in a matter of months - requiring a peak flow of around 1000 times higher than the amazon river at it highest rate ( Read more... ) -
When I'm done shaking I'll be simple
To follow the fickle whims of fate is a fallacy.
If we are merely actors playing an unknown script, then what is the point of life? To satisfy to curiousities of a higher being or beings? It that were true, then those higher beings are more twisted than we give them credit for..
Embrace randomness! Love the disorder! And most of all, live. -
I saw beauty in the sidewalk puddles and depth in the colours of rain clouds...
Most late afternoons, Claire and Jack would sit at the same park bench and watch the ducks paddle around the lake ( Read more... ) -
from father to guardian
On a wet sunday morning many years ago, little Brodie asked his father to play backyard cricket, but was completely ignored ( Read more... ) -
remember?
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."
Even standing alone in an office, such words never fail to move me... -
you should hear what's going on outside...
Through tears and shakes the six year old screamed at Mother.
"This is the worst day of my life!"
Mother ignored this profound statement and strapped protesting child to the back seat.
What did she know of life?
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eros lumos
I was overwhelmed by a flickering light amidst the darkness of a moonless night.
She danced alone in the silence as I circled at a distance. I was drawn in by every thrust and pirouette in her routine - foreign but oddly familiar.
I cannot seem to place it.
her look.
her glow.
her gyrating body.
her scent... oh how her scent infiltrated my senses! ( Read more... ) -
drift
I try to com/prehend/your state
pressurised
misunderstood
and/oh/so/fra/gile.
A plea/sure to see you smile/again
It only comes
when you’re caught off-guard
But it lights/up/this/room
Everything
Is falling
into place
I wish we had
a space
To shut it out
And just be/our/selves...
I just want to drift ... away hey
I just want to drift ... away
Hearts/tend/to speak ( Read more... ) -
"death to the apple gerls..."
Caroline sighed that her life had become click and drag.
And whose fault was that? Clearly not hers - she was nothing more than an innocent bystander to the revolution.
No!
It was the corporations!
And the mighty dollar!
And marketing!
Who was she to stand against the tide of evolution? They were making her life easier, and that must be a good ( Read more... ) -
general ignorance
we do good things because:- there is a god worth fearing;
- we share a common goal of advancing civilisation;
- we revel in the delight of peer approval;
- social structure demands it;
- we have a natural disposition towards it; or