I recently posted a poem by my mother, Shänne Sands, to an ezine. The poem, I am a Collector of Useless Things, is a beautiful rendering on what you go through when you move and have to pack and unpack your entire life. All the memories that flood back, sad and happy, all the mementos…
Author: Daniel
Genocide
In December 1948 the UN and her agencies and later many countries in their own legal frameworks, adopted a definition of genocide. They did this in the face of WW2 in which 50 million people died. They did not define the entire war as a genocide or the mass murders of 20, million Slavs, or…
Porridge
It is only in the past few months that I have learned how much birds enjoy eating porridge – which is obvious since they are oats, but I sprinkle them on the bird able and they punch – small and large. I had a small flock of Jays here and it is heartening to see…
She Walks in Beauty Like the Night
She walks in Beauty, like the Night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to the tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies – One shade the more – one ray the less Had half impaired the nameless…
The Fearsome Legacy of Lying
We treat our children to the fairytale of Father Christmas and the the Tooth Fairy, to the myths of a world as it might have been with magicians and elves and dragons and having filled them with these fantasies for a decade we tell them this is the best time of their lives. Why? Because…
Atheism
The joy of being an atheist is to be wholly free in mind of any discussions that assert divinity. Once free you realise our ethics has to come from us, not diktat, tradition or history. You realise that every vile act that has been done in the name of religion is a human act devoid…
Funny Funny
I keep hearing people say they cannot be anti-Semitic as they have worked with and know a lot of Jewish people. I recall Upton Sinclair writing that Goerring had Jewish pilots in his Luftwaffe and he said ‘I choose who is and is not a Jew’. I also recall a TV host saying his racist…
Surorised
I was chatting to a young lady today who is 23, and she spoke about how badly she was educated as a child with dyslexia. I was surprised because I thought all that had been dealt with in the 1980s but it seems teachers out there exist who never received the memo. If you go…
ISP Provider
So my isp called me and told me they were reducing my monthly charges partly to say thank you but mostly because many people are leaving them for other providers. They offered me an Apple watch as a present and is aid thank you and chose my colour. This morning an apple iphove16 pro was…
Everyone has an opinion
The internet has unleashed a tidal wave of personal opinions onto the screens of the world that prove beyond doubt to me that we are nowhere near living in the world of computers yet. When we have to ability to talk and see things done by robots, maybe even have implants into our bodied we…