Month: November 2021

• Give me a staff of honour for mine age

  It’s interesting how we can find ourselves immersed in Time, isn’t it? We ride in it as if we were on a bus, looking out of the windows at the world going by. We are all on a journey I suppose, but some of us at different speeds and from different locations. Well, at least…

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  November 22, 2021

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  Age, Ageism, empathy, masks, othering, pandemic, public transit, Time

• All hoods make not monks

  Don’t you sometimes wonder what normal is? I mean is it ‘fitting in’ -being ‘average’- or is it  simply not being subject to undue attention in a supermarket checkout line? And even if you don’t ‘fit in’, suppose everybody in your family also looks like you? Does that make the whole family abnormal, or just,…

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  November 17, 2021

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  abnormal, average, Jonathan Sholl, Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault, normal, pandemic, patterns, Sara Moghaddam-Taaheri, social bubbles, social-distance

• On crossing a creek on a log

  For some reason, every once in a while I find I am asking myself abstruse questions. I don’t know why that is, nor what I hope to discover, even if I find an answer. One of the more recent additions to my growing list of queries is whether or not things always have to be…

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  November 10, 2021

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  existence, flow of a creek, forest bathing, homo proposito, purpose, Sartre, teleology

• A probable fiction

  It’s hard to know how to behave nowadays isn’t it? How to know what to do, and under what circumstances; to agree, or disagree -or wandering inside the cloud of political correctness, to waffle. It’s not so much the lack of an opinion, as the fact that with time, or even with different context, the…

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  November 3, 2021

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  Age, arguments, debate, essays, faces, Michel de Montaigne, opinions, Psyche.co, Rachel Ashcroft, sweaters, University of Edinburgh