Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. With thanks. He could kill me this time. Before the blow that never comes, I leave. In the no-man’s land between now, and the awareness of now, I withdraw from my body. From the feet upwards, until I exit, like breath, from the back of my head. A gossamer …
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I born freak
Image by Wave Generics from Pixabay My life is a complicated long division sum.811,946,422,277 divided by 137. Just do the math. 0 ÷ 0 = infinity/undefinedI am a cosmos unfolding along the ocean current of time. I am space. I am absorbed in the eternal present. It is an endless, beautiful fascination of ideas that …
Compassion
This is something I wrote for myself some time ago, but I’m offering it up for anyone who is enmeshed in what is currently happening in the Middle East. In order to cope with the discomfort of listening to someone talk about something that creates stress in you, you need three things. Courage to keep …
Memories are made of this
When I look back to my childhood, it is in indistinct shades of grey, punctuated by regular splashes of colour. The colour is foreign in every sense, it bubbles with life and laughter, and its colours are pine green, lapis lazuli and Umbrian red. It rises around me in mountainsides and lakes, gilded churches and …
These are the things …
These are the things that have proved more valuable than my friendship – a washing machine and a television. These are the things that are more important than my wellbeing – what other nameless faces will say These are the things that are more valuable than the lives of countless men, women and children in …
Don’t linger on the event horizon
Abuse in life is not something that you get over – it is something that you dilute. It is ever present with you. You cannot leave it behind, you can only accept it and allow it. It is a black hole in the universe of yourself, but it does not devour your universe, it is …
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