Month: July 2026

• What is it thinking…?

  I have to confess -admittedly with a little blush- that I sometimes wonder what things are thinking about: things, not the people in government, or those who are members of different countries, not even the people down the road, although I often wonder about the old, wooden house that seems to be shrugging in despair…

  gozzter

  July 29, 2026

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  agency, anthropocentrism, anthropomorphism, bedtime stories, environment, God, indigenous beliefs, Nature, pantheism, philosophy, spirit, spirituality, world religions

• Oh, speak again of the day you’ve had

  I’ve always been a dog person I think; I love all animals, but dogs are special to me: they are curious about the world outside their yards -their territories. I mean for them, everything seems to leave a scent, or at least a mark as they travel through the park or neighbourhood where they are…

  gozzter

  July 22, 2026

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  crowds, helping, marking, seeing the world differently

• The broken telephone

  Recently, after reading an interesting essay on message drift[i], a thought occurred to me: social media is much like the Telephone Game I used to play as a child. A bunch of you sit around in a circle and one person whispers a message into the ear of the child sitting beside him and the…

  gozzter

  July 15, 2026

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  friends, message drift, social media, telephone game

• Illusion is the first of all pleasures

  Maybe I listen too much; maybe I adapt too well: as I age others are finding new labels for my behaviours -labels which may seem apt at first perhaps, but cannot withstand even the feeblest of analysis. I rush to beg those who don’t know me personally not to judge my deportment too harshly: I…

  gozzter

  July 8, 2026

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  discussions, fawning, listening, opinions, writing

• It is in the ocean that the river will realize it is not disappearing but becoming the ocean

  There are some things I just can’t prove: that I am in pain, for example, and that it ebbs and flows like waves on the ocean. How would anybody know for sure, unless they were inflicting it, that it is pain that I am feeling -not something else? Let’s face it, I am the only…

  gozzter

  July 1, 2026

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  Bertrand Russell, experiencing, introspection, knowledge by acquaintance, knowledge by description, Pain, philosophy