Blog#25: Fragments on a Windy Day
Part One
While other folk were watching the (fairly) newly-released fourth Matrix film, I was taking another look at the original Matrix movie, from over twenty years ago. This one, at least, is well worth watching a number of times, and it contains plenty that remains relevant to what is going on in the world today. In fact, the . . .
Life Story #25: Gathering Storms
Five of Chalices: 'Disappointment...... loss, but something remains over....... flaw....... the fire has gone out but the raven has not forgotten beauty....'
Part One
There were issues in the commune for sure. There were Mottie issues, for example: woman issues, sex issues; or lack-of-sex issues. This had become a . . .
Blog#24: Many Voices on the Freedom Trail
'Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain but you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something very wrong with the world. You don't know what it is - but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.....'
Do you know what it is? The Matrix is . . .
Life Story#24: What Goes Up....
Summer's end 1975 rolls around, and we all head off to Watchfield. After the officially-sanctioned violence at the end of Windsor the previous tear, there was no way a festival was going to be held there in 1975, or any other year for that matter. The actions of the police had drawn heavy criticism, but no matter; the desired result had been . . .
Blog#23: Droplets
Part One
Worshippers at the Dark Unholy Church of Mainstream Everything might be surprised at some of the things that are proceeding out there. In the world of legalities, for example. Cases have now been filed from many different places with the International Criminal Court, claiming crimes against humanity and genocide re. the pathogen . . .
Life Story#23: A Dark Teacher
Part One
1975 goes down in meteorological history as the first of two successive years with (by British standards) remarkably hot, dry, and sunny summers. Day after day I was out in shirtsleeves, delivering as much mail as I could before the hear became near unbearable.
The evening overtime had dried up. Now I went in for a stint of . . .
Blog#22: It's a Gas Gas Gas
Part One: What Price Gas?
During the second half of 2021, the price of gas in the UK (and elsewhere, undoubtedly) skyrocketed. Aside from noting that it looked like another attempt to squeeze-and-fear the general populace, I didn't pay overmuch attention. I got on with my life. But then, mid-December, I was informed that our current . . .
