How adventurous was your childhood? Was every day an action packed bonanza of thrills and spills, exciting expeditions into caves, lakes, rivers, forests? Did you catch frogs? Make dens? Build dams across streams? Climb trees? Play outside until it was too dark to see without a torch? Or did you spend too much time indoors, …
Tag: Philosophy
Why we all need a little dog time.
There's got to be a good reason why so many people say they'd like to be reincarnated as a dog. Is it because they have an unfulfilled urge to roll around in mud? Could it be that some folks yearn for something more basic like the love a good stick or bone, instead of the …
How to use life’s pause button.
Every now and then it's good to hit the pause button on life and take a look around. Think of it as calling a cease-fire so you can raise your head above the ramparts and check how things are going. Are you winning? Losing? Maintaining the status quo? For the "glass is half empty" folks …
What if you’re the last one left?
Imagine you're living in a world without people. The how and why aren't important. Choose your apocalypse if it helps fuel your imagination - zombies, deadly virus, alien mass abduction, Biblical event, dimensional rift in space/time - whatever floats your boat. You're alone in a silent city. All those background noises you've taken for granted …
For the family whom I love
My best friends Mum is close to moving on. In such times I curse my inability to find my voice and vocalise my emotions. I've never been very good at communicating during times of deep emotional turmoil. Instead I retreat to the solitude of writing where I can capture what's in my heart. This post …
Dave Farmer 