Tag Archives: misunderstanding
Thoughts from dust
I dare to stand and speak forth what I have written here, that which from my innermost being I have felt, which like a spring from deepest earth has risen, things which are dear to me or move me much, my friend. * Watching, you see only the outwardness of this, my being; enquire, and […]
A request for an ‘SAE’
Ralph Pennington-Forbes believed himself to be a well-balanced person. Some would smile at that. To put it plainly, he was a Burgher, born of English-speaking descendants of early Portuguese and Dutch people who settled in Ceylon, as it was called then. His parents had purchased a small valley close to Adam’s Peak, clearing the land […]
Do you want to be ‘organic’?
This is an item I gave at a meeting during my short but glorious reign as President of the Morrinsville SeniorNet Computing Group Dear fellow members You may be interested to know of a surge of interest from me recently whilst checking my emails. I’d zipped through several run-of-the-mill type emails, such as: Diet success […]
A spontaneous expression of exuberance
Sometimes as teenagers we would each, in our own way, talk in an exaggerated fashion about all manner of things, quite loudly so that those around would hear. At first, what we said was for ourselves and personal but those around would give us friendly glances and smile. Thus encouraged, we carried on so that […]
Pain
Part of the price of being human is, I suppose, that most of us have something in our past which causes us pain of one kind or another. The pain is partly because we cannot change the past and make it better, and partly because the hurt may have been caused by someone we loved […]
The writings of a Lancashire lad 
Final confirmation (conceptual realisations)
It was the absence of familiar sounds that pushed the first alert button in my mind, as Sugar, our cat, hadn’t purred her gentle, ‘Get up and feed me now!’ call in my ear. The second alert registered when I realised my eyes were open but there was nothing to see; just a soft, creamy […]