https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/well/mind/anxiety-brain.html

https://www.artofplay.com/blogs/articles/fun-with-ambiguous-images

However folded rivers sigh
Watch fields of barley unreel red eye
Bad-mouth the world then eat the sky;
And thro’ the weald the toads run by
To moody glowering Havelot;
And chips in hand the fishes row,
Gazing as the matrix glow
Refine algebra with its flaws
The Geometry of My Blot.

Pillows quaver, aspirins quiver,
Little wheezes flush our livers
With two eyes mauve that gleam forever
By the cardinal’s email lover
Fleeing down to grab a phone.
Fifty shades of grey ,balls powered
Overload the ovaries
And the silent male implodes
For the Lady, will she Not?

At my jargon, pillows wailed
They read the heavy sheets in braille
Slow and blue the duvets failed
The dry mop shuttered silk and pale
Slapping down wi fi Hotspots
But which computer saw her glands?
Or at her thyroid wondered long?
Or is she known to heartless men,
The Lady M.A [aegrotat]

Only drapers, fold sincerely
In among the beds and parlours,
Hear a gong that echoes queerly
From the river bounding eerie
Down to showers for Camper’s Foot
And on the Lune, the sweeping fairies
Pile the leaves in uplands barely
Listening, whispers “‘Tis the lovely
Lady with a white Tea Pot.”

Should a doctor start up his own blog?

Or is it better if he walks his own dog

Today both is fine should he live alone

But don’t do it walking in fog

We once had a doctor called Twigge

Whose eyes were excessively big

His head was large too

As was his shoe

Nevertheless he could still dance a Jig

Gold stone from Cotswold quarries young men brought

And built into a way of life for those who bought

Their lives so cheaply,

And did not see

The children’s eyes,the ball,.the game ,the tree

Of life that grew in small backyards and gave all

To those who climbed into its arms.

Why should this not be you?

Oh,Eden,I see that you are nearer now

In lowly homes where love is free

Than in the temple, grove,and soft set brow

Of those who worship God in churches built of gold.

Now we must know that this is easy to behold

When sun is setting,and escapes the ashes

Thrown up and floating in the watches

Of the days of voter’e eyes cast up to skies

and,wondering fearful, what will come

when all the secret deals are done.

So take the gold of life and let it fall

Into your children’s growing souls

And let this Cotswold town and spires

Melt into sunset’s glowing orange fires.

Published by Katherine

Washing my hair with  washing machine detergent.
Using colourless shoe  polish instead of face cream.
Using frozen strawberries  to color my lips.
Reading Sylvia Plath in bed.
Cutting my hair  with the pinking sheers in summer.
Eating the cat’s biscuits.
Drinking tea from a beer tankard while reading the News.
Drinking beer in  the bath.
Forgetting I am older than I was.
Having 67 handbags .
Having 54 mobile phones all on PAYG.
Polishing my nails.
Reading newspapers.
Ironing  my bra.
Wearing a bra.
Wearing underwear in summer.
Going paddling  in the sea with my frock tucked up my knicker legs.
Drinking tea from a flask instead of going  to a cafe.
Cooking real food.
Adopting stray cats.
Adopting  another man.
Marrying again.
Talking.
Talcum powder.
Fly spray.
Hair spray.
Deodorants.
Mathematics
Infinity and how many types there are.
Going to church.
Singing  in the street free of charge.
Humming.
Groaning when my knees hurt.
Sitting on Waterstone’s stairs as they have no chair downstairs.
Wearing lovely coats because I have to sit in daft places now they have no benches anywhere.

Patients must not share beds ,food,relatives or looks.Jokes shared from 5 to 6 pm daily

Books may be shared unless they are infectious.In that case kindly boil them in hot soapy water before lending out.

Please do not laugh while the consultant is here.She only wears miniskirts to cut her laundry bill.

Please do not ask for permits to visir Kentucky Fried Chicken  Cafe whilst a patient  here.

Remember your dignity and kindly avoid wetting the floor by visiting the toilet every hour on the hour… or on the dot

Courtesy is welcome.Four letter words are punishable by cold tea in the morning.

Free dictionaries are available if you want to enlarge your vocabulary whilst recovering from our errors.

Please do not play board  games at night.

No sex of any kind is allowed unless you pay for it.

Reproduction is not allowed either whether free or purchased off  line

Armageddon  comes and we don’t find
The time to stop and think and wonder at
The wrath of God, the thunder of his mind

Is he  the ground of   being undefined?
The earth where seeds are nurtured  by his  hands
Armageddon  comes and  we are blind

He is not  a sweet and compliant friend
Nor the lord of  rich and  fertile lands
His  the wrath  and his  the thunderous mind

As the storms washed men off Kentish sands
So God  hurls the energy he sends
Armageddon  comes and  we are blind

In these trials, whose hearts are refined?
Are  we open, can we each attend,
His  the sun and his  the mighty mind

As on the rocky path we wary stand
Below despair, we find the deep commands
Armageddon,  love and care are drained
The  grief of God, the  pity of his mind

Come to me. give me a huggle now
I learn Sandwich is in Kent near you
With all my hardy buds I thee imbue
Come to me and share this muddle now
If it’s legal, let me whisk your brow
Love, there’s langour in your eyes, like glue
Come ye geese. give us a gaggle now
I learnt Middle English with no clue

Just the week before my husband died , someone helping me in the garden put some soil weeds and some stone pieces

Into the green recycling Bin

I did not realise until the men emptying the green bins did not take ours. I asked the local authority if they could do it and they absolutely refused because they wanted me to take out the stones

I had  just come back from visiting my husband  and I now knew he was soon die so so I got a piece of

did not go to see him till 5 pm instead of 3 p.m. he har severe heart failure and and could not eat.

He was really starving  and on the Thursday he had developed a severe chest infection but although it was a GP  led unit they could not call a doctor until after 6 when they were told to ring 111.

And the doctor came at 10:30 p.m.

This place was not suited to a very sick man and at 9 pm Sunday evening he was taken to a hospital about 5 miles away where he died on Monday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. in A&E but it was very very good indeed.

I went home with my sister about 6 p.m. after two of her children came of up to the hospital.

If you are going to arrange the funeral. There is something called one stop I want the phone or something like that and you’ve found this place and give them all the details and they notify anybody who needs to be notified such as the local council the public library your GP and I can’t remember the rest but it’s very good

So sometime during that week I thought that I must try to move the green bin my work of art from the pavement in case a blind person walked into it. I can’t see very well myself so I try to remember.

When I braced myself and gripped the handle I nearly fell over because the bin has been emptied but it was not the day for it.

and wrote on it with a marker pen m

This work of art has been created for you  by the council.

5 weeks later I rang the council to ask them why I was still paying the the the full amount of council tax since my husband

I couldn’t move it back into the garden I’ve it was very heavy and it was Friday afternoon so no chance of getting someone else to do it.

I didn’t know it woulr be the last time that I would see my husband on a Friday as he died the following Monday

Over the weekend I discovered at the place  he had been sent to was not a hospice but  a rehabilitation centre.And Gotham to walk to the gym and walk up and down even though the heart told me it was will be impossible for my husband to walk to the front door without great suffering

He had been there for 2 days when that incident occurred and the next day the Saturday is sister was coming down from York

. So I couldn’t go to see my husband until the afternoon and when I was getting ready the sister from the ward rang me and verbally attacked me for visiting my husband too much. I had him once on Thursday 1 Friday and not at all on Saturday so  I was a little bit taken aback but did not go to see him till 5 pm instead of 3 p.m. he har severe heart failure and and could not eat.

He was really starving  and on the Thursday he had developed a severe chest infection but although it was a GP  led unit they could not call a doctor until after 6 when they were told to ring 111.

And the doctor came at 10:30 p.m.

This place was not suited to a very sick man and at 9 pm Sunday evening he was taken to a hospital about 5 miles away where he died on Monday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. in A&E but it was very very good indeed.

I went home with my sister about 6 p.m. after two her children how to come up to the hospital.

If you are blgoing to arrange the funeral. There is something called one stop I want the phone or something like that and you’ve found this place and give them all the details and they notify anybody who needs to be notified such as the local council the public library your GP and I can’t remember the rest but it’s very good

So sometime during that week I thought that I must try to move the green bin my work of art from the pavement in case a blind person walked into it. I can’t see very well myself

When I braced myself and gripped the handle I nearly fell over because the bin has been emptied but it was not the day for it.

5 weeks later I rang the council to ask why I was still paying the the the full amount of council tax since my husband has died  he was no longer living there not even his body was there

I was understood by a young man who told me

You have probably got another man bybnow

I said it is less than 6 weeks since my husband died and for a person of my age it might be a bit longer to find a new partner. I told him

I have not really had time to look out for another man but when I get one I assure you you will be the first person to know about it in a meantime stop charging me when you know perfectly well he’s dead.

I mean who are these people in the civic centre that can talk to you like that?

What on earth has happened to the British people?

Well since then we’ve had brexit and we’ve had Boris Johnson in ill more than one role to my mind unsuccessful

Now we seem to have politicians who even 10 years ago would have  been laughable.

So if your husband or wife or anyone else in your family is reaching the end of their life make sure that it’s a hospital or a hospice they go to not a clinic to rehabilitate people who have had their hip replaced.. the truth of the matter is is my husband an old person and they did not want him a hospital bed for the last 5 or 6 days of his life and they managed it because A and Enis not a place where you need admission to the hospital it was not registered as being in the hospital. However I have no complaints about it except he was in a cubicle in which it was hard for one person to get on either side of the bed and one of his closest friends went away because he is a large man not fat but large he has told me he regrets not being there when my husband died and it was a very beautiful death

The main problem was when I went home he was not there

I sometimes wonder where the people have gone on who would have taken the place of Ed Miliband  Jeremy Corbyn band Theresa May. I didn’t liie  her spending the £1000 on some leather trousers but it might have been to keep her legs dry in the rain

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/14/when-things-are-not-ok-friends-offer-help-heres-how-to-do-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

So what was the verdict? Was it suicide?

No it was self-defence.

I don’t understand.

He was his own worst enemy.

Was nothing positive in his life?

Yes most of it was but he wanted a 100%

Is even god 100% perfect when do people he created go to war with each other?

I agree it’s very mysterious. Maybe there is another God higher than this one

That’s like mathematics where there is a number between any two real numbers no matter how close together now.

It’s not true about cake.

Slices will get very thin unlike the people who eat them

I know that God at least started the heatwave just to annoy me. Sometimes I think that whatever I pray for he sends the opposite.

Why for once can’t we have snow in August?

Is it too much to ask where other people are praying for cancer cures safe births for babies and sunny days for their wedding why this time can’t God answer my prayers?

I should stop going to church that will show him whatvI think

When I was a child we didn’t have a bathroom but once a week on a Saturday evening we were washed in a tin bath in front of the fire

That saves a lot of water.

What you have to consider is the habits of the people. The children in my class at school we’re mostly in a similar situation and we probably all smells a little bit sweaty but nobody stood out.

Now people are very much cleaner on the whole so if you only had a bath once a week you might not be quite so clea

n so you would have to be very careful how to wash your body well without using so much water.

As we are animals it’s possible that men are attracted by women’s smell so they might get turned on more if we did not have a bath or a shower more often.

What conclusion you draw from that it’s up to you

Anything similar

like washing your clothes less often and mopping the floor less often is going to say water

Whatever you do you must not stop drinking a lot of water especially in hot weather.

I have heard the arthritis can be worse if you don’t drink enough water.

In Britain the main use of water is on farms and our land use for growing crops so it is up to the farmers and the government to deal with that.

Since we always believe that things were going to get better  and better 0 we are now worried about our aspirations.

If salvation lay in having a shower daily will we be/do better if we have 2 showers?

Here we are crossing the border line into to obsessive-compulsive disorder

For some of us we would carry on like this until having a bath every hour and we will not be able to go to work and have no money we lose our home and end up livin’ on a dung heap.

more and more of the same thing does not lead to perfection but to insanity.

You can only increase one activity by doing less  of other activities. If children spend too long doing homework they will have less time for play. Play is essential for learning so in the long run spending too much time on homework may be an error.

Not really a good idea to have only one interest in life.

Many others are not very confident and and maybe as we get towards retirement we envy people who have very interesting hobbies like creating model trains or imagining how to take a rail journey round England and Scotland and you actually close your eyes after you’ve looked at the back of the photographs and imagine you are looking after the train window at some beautiful hills and the sea, if you like reading why don’t you try writing something? It makes a big difference to me reading poetry now after I have written many poems I found it much more interesting . Even if your poetry is not very good it will still help you when you’re reading poetry because you have some idea of what the point might be trying to do do and it will increase your interest in your language whether English or something else.

Many things are interesting such as making cakes If a man wanted to learn how to make cakes I think that will be very good because if his wife had previously been doing the baking he will appreciate the time involved in her expertise in

He might ask her to teach him

Unfortunately men

in that position will decide that they are better than the wife She’s been doing it for 40 years and she might feel very distressed devalued for something that previously she felt good about.

Don’t do something other people in your family do, try something completely different.

Learn to make your own clothes or make patchwork quilts. The something about using your hands to make something that can be very very beautiful when we slow down to the rhythm of the world and get into a deeper connection with the tools and the wook of metal or whatever we are using

It may seem as if we are knitting or weaving this very world that we are living in but you have to slow down a lot before you find that out.

Slowing down to the pace of life. Does blood hasten through the arteries?

It should only happen for a short time I’m when we are under stress but if the blood rushes around the body it’s the blood pressure going higher and ultimately you could have a heart attack so slow down the pace of life so down to the rhythm of the world to the rhythm of the waves breaking on the shore in the morning when the dawn is breaking and everything is pale and you are beautiful like the skin of a baby like the smile of your lover.

Slow slow slow let us become like the waves on the sea coming in in going out in and out gently like a feather floating down from the sky from a passing bird the the feather does not rush to get to earth because the journey is more important then the end which is lying on the earth and being trodden into the ground.

There’s no hurry.

I will even say that Hurry is a bad thing

And so say all of us

It’s interesting that when something is sinful according to Christian teachings then it’s written down in various places. When I used a missal a Catholic prayer book there was a section on the sacrament of confession which contained the list of sins. I never ever wondered how this was put together It was quite a long list I had discovered later t byhat some people were just looking through and picking out a couple of sins and then confess their sins when they went into the confessional with the priest!

Obviously they didn’t know that we were all sinners for whom Jesus died on the cross and therefore we had to confess our real sins that we really done to the priest.

I wonder how many Catholics misinterpreted this but I do know my sister confessed to adultery when she was 12 years old. Told me that she had got the word from that list but she didn’t know what it was and I didn’t tell her.

Why should I cause my sister distress? It was s very long list of sins and it was quite a good education;it was almost as good as finding a list of swear words and 4-letter words that you must never say when you never would have seen them previously because you didn’t know of their existence and you never heard anyone say them.

If you you are 7 or 8 when you make your first Communion have you ever wondered what the children knew because some of them couldn’t read!!

It is even more strange that the average reading age of adults in this country is between 9 and 10 that means that 50% of the population had a reading age below 10 which means that they could only read a limited number of words when to read a newspaper like the Times or the Guardian you need a reading age of 14 so it would appear that three quarters of the population of Britain cannot read a proper newspaper at all with any degree of success. And they probably could not afford to buy those expensive papers

Since the reading age is declining even further it’s possible that is a connection to the weak politicians we now have. Only idiots would vote for some of the people who are in office or who will hope to get into office at the next general election so in one sense it is not in the interests or the political class to raise the reading age of our children in schools. It’s possible that using computers and other screens might mean that the vocabulary the children meet at different ages may be reduced from what it used to be when we are all read books paper books. I’m sure that information must exist. Conversation is a place where we learn language and increase our vocabulary but is conversation as common now but it used to be by? Writing texting and emailing language comes across a little bit differently and again it may be a language with fewer words that the full number in the English language and literature which used to be named by a proportion of people let’s say the ones who went to college or of the ones who did GCSE level subjects at school.

Returning to the subject of sin we can increase our vocabulary by reading some of the list of sins in prayer books especially Catholic ones. I wonder if some theologians like to think about sins for reasons that are not entirely honourable,

If my sister reached the age of 12 without having anything said about being bad or committing sins and believed that the list was put there for our convenience to save us thinking about what we had actually done then why would see loads of them just wanting to tell her that she might suffer from

irregular motions of the flesh ?If she got married she added adultery to her behaviour so that she could confess to it when she went to church.

how could you convince your child  telling lies was wrong when when Boris Johnson does it?

What about irregular motions of the brain brought on by using iPads and laptops not to mention smartphones.

Such words “not to mention” could have been used in the present to say you know this sinful to steal people’s food and I don’t want to mention all the other things like adultery theft selfishness greed calling someone nasty names murder anti-semitism; and several thousand more.

It’s fortunate that we don’t vacuum Woods

Getting the earth clean is never good

Creation really happens when thing mix.

The seeds drop into earth like petals do,not bricks

The tiny seed contains all that it needs

To grow into a most specific tre

But it needs a soil enriched by wild decay.

The treetops sing while all the world’s play

The convent school was so strict we weren’t even allowed to talk to ourself in the corridors.

When they proved the existence of God I realised their god was not my god..

It was a mortal sin to kiss your boyfriend so I kissed my sister’s boyfriend instead.

Women weren’t allowed to swear but it in order to avoid swearing we had to learn a long list of swear words and four letter words but I never heard of before.

My dad did say damn once when he’ was trying to mend my shoes. When the hammer had leaped up and bit him

Or did it hit him?

Mary went into the bookshop and as usual knocked all the books of the table by the door.Emile was in her old Polish leather journalists’ bag.
Oh, mother for God’s sake,why are you so clumsly, he mewed
Maybe I’ve got dispraxia, she smiled imperviously
At least you’ve not got discalculia,Emile murmured wickedly
I think it is coming on, she pertly responded,I find it so hard to keep my accounts now.Maybe it’s because I hate dealing with money.
I am sorry I am not a man,said Emile.I could get job and give you housekeeping money and a dress allowance
That is sweet but I do have enough to manage on, she cried wilfully
Then they saw Annie coming in the door wearing a yellow blouse and skirt which had attracted a huge cloud of wasps and bees who believed she was a giant buttercup
Luckily her foundation was not yellow but deep pink ivory by Guerroad of Paris and Wigan
Her lipstick was called Red Vice and was made in Southport for Yves de Pourrant
Her eyes were invisible behind her cyclists’ sunglasses from,Milletts but she had bought contact lenses which made her eyes look like lapis lazula
What are all those bees doing in here, cried the manager
They are with me,said Annie in a nasty tone of voice
Will they not stay outside, he muttered shamefaced
Unfortunately they have not learned English yet, she told him.The Government have stopped English as a foreign language lessons for immigrants, you see.
Don’t tell me they are immigrants, he shouted.That is absolutely ridiculous
Well swallows are immigrants, she informed him,
Do you mean the government is paying their rent and buying them all new cars like they do to Romanians?
I didn’t know Romanians got free brand new cars from the government.They must have got some incriminating photographs of Theresa May eating trifle with her bare hands while delivering a rebuke to Boris Manson.Or maybe Boris Manson had done something terrible!
You can say that again, shouted Annie.He’s an ace at doing stupid things.
He went to Eton,Mary told her
What’s that got to do with it,Annie asked her
Well, just recalled when I was teaching at Cloxford there was a youth from Eton in the seminar group.He managed to get a third class degree
I bet his parents didn’t know a 22 year old working class girl was teaching him
Well, he didn’t know my age but I could still get half fare on the bus.He looked older than me but his parents were never around.As for being working class I did work very hard with that class and all tnhe others got decent seconds,Mary reported.
The manager appeared and threw a bucketful of hot water over Annie and the bees
Eeh,I am in hot water.Ring 999 and get Dave the transvestite paramedic and some towels
But who will dry the bees,asked poor Emile?
God dries bees who dry themselves.said Mary
In to the shop came Dave running as fast as he could.He knocked down all the books on the tables.
What’s happened ,he trilled?
It’s the manager.I think he is dead, Annie said.I hit him with my handbag
I can resuscitate him,Dave wept.But keep mum about your blow
The manager came to and looked bewildered.I thought I had died and gone to heaven and here I am in this horrible shop again.
Annie went over and dried herself on his jacket
.Thanks for the free wash, she whispered.Meet me tonight in the pub
I am a married man, he told her
That’s what they all say,Annie said in her inimitable manner
And so say all of us

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Blaming placating computing levelling

Blaming in response to Blaming gets you a fight.

Placating in response to Placating gets you an undignified delay.

Computing in response to Computing gets you a dignified delay.

Leveling in response to Leveling is an exchange of the simple truth; it’s always the best choice when it’s safe and when it’s appropriate.

Distracting in reponse to Distracting is panic feeding panic; it’s always a mistake.

Rule One:
If you don’t know what to do, go to Computer Mode and stay there until you have a good reason to change.

Rule Two:
If it would be desirable for the Satir Mode coming at you to escalate…….. Please read the article by clicking on the link above

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/books/review/emotional-leonard-mlodinow.html

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EMOTIONAL
How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
By Leonard Mlodinow

One of the greatest physicists of the last century, Paul Dirac, had no use for emotions. “My life is mainly concerned with facts, not feelings,” he declared. He loved his emotion-free existence, or so it seemed, until he met a vivacious woman who was his exact opposite — impulsive and ardent. She became his wife and not only made him a happy man but also dramatically changed his personality. He became a feeling human being, which in turn affected his science.

Yes, physics! If being logical and rational were all that mattered, we wouldn’t need actual physicists. The job could be done by computers. Later in life, Dirac became so convinced that knowledge needs to be combined with intuitions, crazy hunches and irrational perseverance that whenever he was asked about the secret to his success, he stressed that one needs to be guided above all by one’s emotions.

Dirac’s case is one of many

EMOTIONAL
How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
By Leonard Mlodinow

One of the greatest physicists of the last century, Paul Dirac, had no use for emotions. “My life is mainly concerned with facts, not feelings,” he declared. He loved his emotion-free existence, or so it seemed, until he met a vivacious woman who was his exact opposite — impulsive and ardent. She became his wife and not only made him a happy man but also dramatically changed his personality. He became a feeling human being, which in turn affected his science.

Yes, physics! If being logical and rational were all that mattered, we wouldn’t need actual physicists. The job could be done by computers. Later in life, Dirac became so convinced that knowledge needs to be combined with intuitions, crazy hunches and irrational perseverance that whenever he was asked about the secret to his success, he stressed that one needs to be guided above all by one’s emotions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/opinion/international-world/coronavirus-fear.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/opinion/international-world/coronavirus-fear.html

Emotions exist for one reason: to help us decide what to do next. They reflect our mind’s predictions for what’s likely to happen in the world and therefore serve as an efficient way to prepare us for it. But when the emotions we feel aren’t correctly calibrated for the threat or when we’re making judgments in domains where we have little knowledge orInformation, our feelings become more likely to lead us astray.

Let me give you an example. In several experiments, my colleagues and I led people to feel sad or angry by having them read a magazine article that described either the impact of a natural disaster on a small town or the details of vehement anti-American protests abroad. Next, we asked them to estimate the frequencies of events that, if they occurred, would typically make people feel sad (for example, the number of people who will have to euthanize a beloved pet this year) or angry (for example, the number of people who will be intentionally sold a “lemon” by a dishonest car dealer this year) — estimates for which people wouldn’t already hold a knowledgeable answer.

Time and again, we found that when the emotion people felt matched the emotional overtones of a future event, their predictions for that event’s frequency increased

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The rich may not be cruel, but they are blind
They don’t know how poor most workers are
They do not mean to sin or be unkind

We all have our defences, undefined
Unconscious of our malice, their despair
The rich may not be cruel, but they are blind

The unemployed, disabled, are maligned
Without a proper voice , this is unfair
Who does not mean to be at all unkind?

Men have toiled for years in dark coal mines
Glad to be at work but often scared
The rich may not be cruel, but they are blind

The poor are growing reckless, unresigned
Jerusalem, what has your Lord to say?
Which human does not mean to be unkind?

Ignorance is not the ideal way
Give money to the outcasts as they sigh
The rich may not be cruel, but they are blind
They do not know they’ve sacrificed their minds

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/learning/how-do-you-deal-with-boredom.html

If kids don’t figure this out early on, they’re in for a nasty surprise. School, let’s face it, can be dull, and it isn’t actually the teacher’s job to entertain as well as educate. Life isn’t meant to be an endless parade of amusements. “That’s right,” a mother says to her daughter in Maria Semple’s 2012 novel, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” “You are bored. And I’m going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it’s boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/opinion/george-floyd-protests.html

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It is the kind that makes a child think to write a parent’s phone number on their skin when they sense trouble brewing, just in case.

This is also violence.

Indeed, America is not only the progenitor of this type of violence, but it sadly responds most to violence. That’s when people pay attention, that’s when the ears perk up, that’s when the news crews come.

During the Civil Rights Movement, the protesters practiced nonviolence, but they were regularly met with violence, and it was that violence that spurred action.

I hope that you will come back o Sarah dear

Our love was not quite perfect though sincere

You told me that you used to have red hair

Wild and curly fierce like Cardiff air

You like to hear my stories mostly you like poems.

You talk of Dylan Thomas,..mention rhymes

I’ll read you my own poem about my pen

You like the rhymes well hidden there again.

Sarah you have asked me where to die

The hospital is calm I quietly sighed

The ruling politicians bring us shame

Ignoring all the suffering of the poor.

England is a goldmine in their games.

They want to be in Vogue,is there a cure?

Truss cannot be trusted for 2 days

Boris Johnson is a clown and boor

I never thought I’d long long for Theresa May.

The House of Commons is a house of whores