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On Entering ‘The Middle Age’
My aunt’s step-mum died a week or so ago, and the funeral is today. I didn’t know her well, and my thoughts have more been with my aunt, who is wonderful, a great sage (and trained psychotherapist) I’ve enjoyed many bottles of wine with. The death holds particular significance in one way: within my family, she…
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Site Under Re-Construction
Going to be doing a little (much over-due) work on this site over the next few weeks. Please use the other sidewalk, and mind the gaping holes.
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Moonwalker…
Now he is gone, all I can hope is that memories will be lunar: that the deep impressions you made with those first footprints will remain, windless and unstirred, giant leaps, forever ingrained in Tranquility. Rest in Peace Neil Armstrong. A quiet, huge gravity, courageous and inspirational, has left for another orbit. Gutted. Safe travels,…
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Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition… The CofE Needs to just Get Over It
With the news that the CofE has come out (h-hmmm) and said that it is gravely concerned about the effect of gay marriage on the Church and its relation to the state, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at some history… A good friend, when hearing about what I was writing,…
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Non-Excludable, Non-Rival : The Upside-Down Economics of Good Ideas
Some thoughts to share on sharing thoughts… “If you have an apple, and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still have one apple. But if you have an idea, and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” George Bernard…
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Prayer for Those Who Burn
Burning Men To those obsessed with fire to the book-burners and plane hijackers the flag-lighters and napalm sprayers: you are no children of the gods. Your father is not Prometheus your gift is not the divine spark lifted from behind mean Zeus’ back fanned out on the earth in good cooked food and light in…