Category: Thinkings and poems

Parts of London

Chingford I don’t know where the river Ching is.

Woodford it’s further East than Chingford they both of them are are near Epping Forest

Dartford. It seems unlikely that the ford was on the River Thames so I guess there is a River Dart.

Fords and bridges are very important in urban areas particularly

Wood Green it’s not what it sounds like unless you go to Alexander palace.

Southgate. Once there was a gates for Enfield Chace a wooded area where King Henry the 8th used to hunt. What were they really hunting for?

Oakwood. Well that is perfectly obvious.

Cockfosters. This is not very obvious. Were there foster homes for lonely cocks?

Potters Bar.. it might be a public house

Essex

the flat wide green of Essex seem so large

then Epping Forest thickens by its side

filled with diverse birds the tree tops stir

Waving in the wind which they defy

the flat land is for farmers and for hares

In the autumn fires throw flames up high.

It seems the Earth is burning where we lay

our bodies and our love sigh into air

Lambeth where sheep may safely graze

Ealing. for miracles
Lambeth where sheep may safely graze
Southwark… just  part of the Ark
Brent….a bit like a bloody stent.
Neasden….. on the NHS?
Richmond and body
Highgate… is there a stile?
Haringey…….am I deaf?
Waltham Forest… … all the trees gone West
Epping Forest… a new swear word.You  epping idiot.
Waltham Abbey as left by Henry V111th.
Barnet…….oh. darn it!
Boreham Wood… no need to be offensive.
Bushey…. well once.
Watford…. all these epping rivers.How about a bridge or two?
Stoke by Nayland…… or in Nayland  or smoke outside Nayland
Constable.. don’t arrest me,I am innocent of that murder
Essex….aye sex! Who needs Freud?
Cheshunt… what is a Ches?
Broxbourne….. any bourne for me and my broxen

5 Signs of ‘Worry Burnout’

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/well/worry-burnout-covid.html

Grappling with that incessant uncertainty makes us wonder, consciously or subconsciously, what the point of caring is and why we should bother paying attention to the news at all. This emotional numbing has also appeared in victims of natural disasters and in health care workers.

The mystery

About the golden light what can I say

Love is near and we don’t need to pray

Enter into darkness without fear

Another hand will  guide help us steer

I had lost my faith I was berefr

I could not speak, and sinking was my raft

Then the soft bright cloud embraced me whole.

I felt a presence and I saw the light

Why should I be helped when many die?

The mysterious hand of God, the soul destroyed

Religion without a church? Humanism almost qualifies

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/12/religion-humanism-atheism?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

They could have taken on militant religion, exposed its texts, decried its doctrines and found arguments to persuade young British men not to go to Syria and slaughter “heretics”. But religious fanatics might have retaliated. Instead, they chose the safe option of attacking the phantom menace of militant atheists, who would never harm them. Leaving all philosophical and moral objections aside, they have been the most awful cowards.

Distracted drivers kill

In the USA people are are 80 times more likely to be killed by a distracted driver on the road than by a terrorist attack. Yes apparently people are more afraid of the terrorist attack than of colliding with a distracted driver