Month: April 2026
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An interesting thought
An interesting question: what is extinction; I mean, really? When I was younger and further away from it myself, the answer was obvious: extinction meant something was no longer alive -or, perhaps more generally, even copies of whatever it was, no longer existed either. Given that I have children who (I hope) are partial copies…
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A Life without Love is like a tree without roots
I’ve got a question, although I have to wonder whether I am the question or the answer: do I live inside my head, outside my head, or more likely in both? It’s not much of a question I realize; it’s hardly relevant to events in the average day; and anyway the answer is, well, all…
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Sleep, that knits the ravelled sleeve
At first, in a long hospital residency, and finally, a lengthy and enjoyable career as an on-call obstetrician/gynaecologist in a busy hospital practice, I found it difficult to fall asleep for those seemingly brief periods between gynaecological emergencies requiring surgery, and managing an often busy obstetrical ward. Somewhere along that continuum, I learned self-hypnosis and…