I just came home from a beautiful wintry walk after last night’s snow. And I walked home yesterday evening just as the sun was going down. Yesterday’s snow was brief before a bright afternoon. the first four photos are from yesterday when the light on the houses made them golden, and the lichen on the … More Climate Thoughts, What sort of Weather?
Like practically everyone else I know, I am inundated with stuff. It is a misnomer to call some of it information even though I suppose everything is information of a kind. New words for the dictionary makers. Like fakenews. Is this new way of spreading some sort of news really new or just renamed? This … More Mindset, or addiction?
What have buttercups and daisies to do with Rage? Well for a start, they are all together in the same space, my space, the rage from conversations that go nowhere fast, as well as visible on the TV screens, and in me reacting. The buttercups and daisies are exploding along the old railway path I … More Buttercups, Daisies and Rage
Remember when Greta Thunberg said to all those very important people at Davos: I want you to Panic. For myself, I have not been able to make sense of the inaction of many, including me, in relation to climate change. I can’t think that we are actually deniers, I am not, but they, including me … More Greta said it – Panic
I find myself less disappointed than I thought I would be – I have no idea why, except that it seemed obvious the results would go this way, and it was clear that Jeremy Corbyn is not liked. So it doesn’t matter that I like him a lot and that I feel for him now. … More Thoughts on the morning after.
It is end November, so no surprise that here it is dark for quite a lot of the time as we are less than 4 weeks away from the shortest day. It is especially dreary on dreich days, so as today was different with forecast crisp and cold … but clear… I took the 29 … More Dreich Days
For the last couple of weeks, all around XR protests in London, and seemingly endless debates in UK Parliament or US Congress, about Brexit and Impeachment, none of which attend to any of the issues I [yes little me] deem important. The chief of these is probably social injustice, suffering, that so often is humanly … More Getting along with life
This lovely picture is inserted to cheer me up, as it was sent to me by Louis, created with the Applepen I bought him for his birthday, knew he wanted it a lot, but me hesitant with thoughts of “expensive technology: Creative? Apple? Current Fad?- you know the feeling. Say it again. TRUST the good … More Online Shopping, Blessing or Curse?
Everywhere is hot, there is the immediate and then the big picture to which I cannot go, I get so frustrated by helplessness. I want a revolution, and have spent years talking about the value of stuff like Evolution, not Revolution. HaHaHa. It comes back to bite. I have a ripe tomato on my little … More Is this a prayer?
It’s coincidence I suppose but seems uncanny, that the Daily Post prompt is Glimmer, just after I was looking at that word and a list of gl words*. Why such a thing? Well I have started writing again, and was looking for the word that describes words that sound the way the thing LOOKS, not … More Glimmer, of what? Hope.
