Grow your own way |
In these times of financial collapse and great uncertainty there are certain steps one can take to lesson the angst of impending poverty.Firstly,if one is lucky enough to have a garden then I would su...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:20:00 GMT |
Hippy New Year |
Greetings Earthdwellers and welcome to 2009! At this time most of us make resolutions to improve some aspect of our behaviour or appearence,we vow to give up smoking or drinking,we promise to treat ot...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:53:00 GMT |
Worlds within worlds |
As a small child I lived with my parents and elder brother on the Isle of Bute on the west coast of Scotland.It is one of the great beauty spots of the world.Clear seas,home to porpoises and whales,ru...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:52:00 GMT |
Time and Space |
This week I attained the ripe old age of 57.In mathematical terms a mere mote amongst the millions of millennia that have already passed,but in human terms it is an age that the young would cert...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:09:00 GMT |
Everything changes,nothing is lost. |
It was a recommendation of my master that one should make the effort to be present whenever possible at the bedside of anyone at the point of death.As a young man in the sixties it was not that uncomm...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:21:00 GMT |
Christmas Custard |
Unlike today,in 1971 Goa was a quiet little paradise almost devoid of westerners ,where travellers in the know would spend a few weeks or months recovering from the rigours of the road.Still retaining...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:21:00 GMT |
Afghanistan |
In 1971 I travelled overland to India.One of the most intriguing places that I visited was Afghanistan.The deserts seemed endless and made one very aware of the huge skies that spread from horizon to ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:14:00 GMT |
Pickled limes |
Just behind the car park for the Taj Mahal,through some scrubby bushes and along a winding dusty path,lies the tiny Ashram of Old Baba.I discovered it purely by chance.I was looking for somewhere to t...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:23:00 GMT |
Silence roars |
Walking in the beautiful autumn woods ,bombarded with the sweet scent of decay and rich earth,only the sound of my feet on the wet leaves breaking the silence.So I stood still for a while to&nbs...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:30:00 GMT |
You cant eat money |
It was the great original American Sitting Bull who pointed out to the lying ,swindling,murderous incomers that once all natural resources had been devoured for so called progress ,the white man would...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:50:00 GMT |
