People will go into reams of analysis about poetry and I will say now, more people know more about the analysis, syntax and grammar of poets than I ever will. They know a good deal about the history and the various verse forms from all around the world but none of these things are what…
Gold Rush
The Black Hills gold Rush started in 1874 and until 1876 was giving meagre dividend. In 1876 placer gold was found in present day Deadwood along the rivers. Placer gold are pieces of gold that have been washed down from a seam. That seam was found in April 1876 and from that seam 10% of…
Louis MacNiece
Bagpipe Music It’s no go the merrygoround, it’s no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow. Their knickers are made of crepe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python, Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with head of bison. John MacDonald found a corpse,…
I Don’t Believe What You Believe
I was listening to Noam Chomsky (well someone has to) about how the major companies in the US and around the world who have a vested interest have tried to make out that climate change is a liberal hoax. Besides the fact that he states they have largely been successful the first thing I thought…
It’s What You’re Used To
My mother loved books and I grew up with books everywhere. Unlike my mother though I also grew up with television though when she thought I was watching too much of it she got rid of it. I remember reading the introduction to the Narnia series by C S Lewis and his saying his house…
Pearl Harbor
I have read a lot about World War Two like ever child of the sixties it is after all, the war ‘par excellence’. I have not commented on whether Roosevelt knew about the Japanese attack before hand and used it as an excuse to get over opposition in Washington to joining the war, or whether…
Changing The Tune
Many years ago I heard a story about a man who studied to be a doctor when young, had to go to war and life took over and went back to his studies finishing when he was forty or so and when asked why he said he could still give twenty years to the profession….
So Many Leaders
I am tired of people who want to rule me and join parliaments to serve themselves, their families and their class. I am tired of being told I need these people when I don’t and actually, as long as we have effective laws, none of us do. I am tired of seeing suits meeting in…
FootSteps Press
I received notice today that FootSteps Press was incorporated on 5th December 2011. FootSteps Press Ltd., is registered as a publisher with lightning source who we anticipate will become our printers. We will be bringing established authors and new authors to the market place by using software that digitally prepares books and prints them on…
Ways Of Thinking
Human beings have ways of thinking that are generational and learned. There is nothing in and of itself either inherently mistaken or dangerous about this fact. Where the danger comes in is with the more animal approach to survival which is less about thought and more about one’s presence in the world of nature. The…