Horses are run all summer on public land and I have been walking by them and offering and leaving carrots for them. I see one or two going to the carrots after I walk away but these horses have had nothing but indifference frim people and on the one hand I want to show them…
One Story
with thousands of characters and slightly differing endings. It is a story that has traversed the world a hundred times and appears in every tribe, every country. It is of a hero fighting a monster. In modern times the monster is a machine, isn’t magical but is still diabolical because it wants to eat human…
At Last The Rain
With places in Scotland facing a semi-drought and water restrictions (I mean Scotland the wettest place in the UK) it is pleasant to have had a downpour this morning even though I am supposed to be trying to film garden video and podcasts. We shall see what we shall see. I am guessing in the…
Clapper Bridges
You used to find them everywhere in Cornwall when the Cornish were in charge. These granite stone blocks were laid over rovers and streams to provide crossing pints. Most were not more than eight feet long and accommodated single file traffic but they stayed for centuries and kept a lot of feet dry. A few…
Being Grateful
Was in the A&E department today for four hours with a neighbour. Watched people coming in dazed from falls, being brought in by the police and showing signs of (domestic|) abuse, in pain from arm and and meg injuries, being sick with stomach agonies, children, teens, adults, heart problems, in need of drips, scans, a…
Mummy How Did God Make Me
Mummy How Did God Make Me? (For Daniel my son, aged 6) God made you out of a puff of air – Somewhere from heaven near to earth – Mingled you with all my dreams Bound with tears left from my youth – Caressed you with Truth’s…
Sheep
I think the saddest realization one may ever have is to know that people are sheep. The endless ways in which they vie for individuality is to chase fame, cut their hair, wear clothes, have tattoos but never it seems, change their way of thinking. None of these things makes them free or individual. These…
Two Sides
There is this amazing side to human intellect – the slow uncovering of the universe, the divesting of myth and superstition for a more in-depth understanding of nature, the continued advance of medical science, the ability t bond with others in partnership and groups, the acceptance of empathy. Not to mention pure academic reasoning and…
Quiet Day
When the days pass with violence, stress, murder and crimes around the world – which are miscalled international politics – it is worthwhile on a rainy cooler day like today to just work quietly and let is slide. I can post a hundred times but I will never be able to debate online, never be…
Who do we need?
I remember the British politician Tony Benn saying that we don’t actually need national politicians or a supposed ‘leader’. That if we kept a functioning police force and a free judiciary we could rule ourselves quite happily. I saw somewhere today a critique of so called democratic countries not being democratic at all. I said…