Since every human being every born has lived their life on this planet it should not be surprising that people’s around the world have often thought the same things. From gods to tyrants it seems there is a unity in history that crosses the continents and only breaks down when you arrive at isolated tribes…
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I Did Not Die, Did You?
The art of acting for me is very much on a stage in front of a living audience that you have to engage for two hours. I do not hold film acting up as the pinnacle of acting or even as very good acting. There are film actors ( a few) I can see would…
Good Morning Mr.Fox
Getting up early these days to take the dogs for a walk – I say dogs but my terrier has decided this is just too early and wraps up on the chair and refuses to move – I have started to see foxes. Or maybe just the one fox, in and around the fields. A…
The Body Beautiful
Mapping the human genome project finally finished two years ago, and now we can map our individual genetic make-up. Giving medical science the ability to tell us what is wrong with so much as a single cell in the next few years. I am sure the Greeks of the sixth century BCE would view this…
Children Of The Sea
I love sea horses. I am sure it is because of their heads because I even loved them after I saw all the different kinds of sea horse there are even to those that look like bits of floating seaweed. And I was very interested when learning about their habits that the male and female…
When Do We Become Who We Are?
I was always amazed at my mother’s ability to sum people up when I was young. Not the least when she met my friends and would tell me how they were likely to react in certain situations. And I recall how many people see ‘character traits’ in toddlers and how people say of adults ‘oh…
Watch Me!
What makes us want to entertain each other? I don’t mean so much today with the huge amounts of money involved or the international recognition of one’s face, it would seem to me to be fairly easy to see that as a self-affirmation exercise. But what makes someone want to travel dusty roads and fetch…
Open Space
I live on the edge of moorland. To be precise Bodmin Moor which is very like Dartmoor and the famous Exmoor known as the home of the Doones in the book Lorna Doone. Although not as dangerous as years gone since there are now roads criss-crossing the area, there are still long stretches perfect for…
History In A Word
My Latin master (I wasn’t very good) used to love the word magnopere (greatly) which rolled off his whiskey soaked tongue as he said it. Most any writer you choose to talk to, or anyone who works with words, will have their favourite sounds. But the true wordsmith loves dictionaries. They read them for pleasure…
Coping With Success
You have seen the headlines. So many celebrities die young or fall from fame and end up penniless and you read their stories to find out if it was a character fault, corrupt agents, disinterested promoters or bad luck. Success and fame, and success without fame, brings with it challenges just like any other path…