The rain bothered her. It had been raining, it seemed, ever since she had arrived, three months ago. It felt like she’d lived here forever and the rain had poured down forever. It had been raining all night and now at 8AM, it came down in a steady downpour The…Continue reading→
Window Pane
It was eight in the morning and the skies had opened up. I sat looking at the newspaper in my hand and the little water droplets forming and rolling down the window pane, when suddenly I realised that I had written a string of words and they were sitting there…Continue reading→
Coffee
Coffee It’s a wond’rous thing, the use of an apostrophe to replace a single character. I mean, come on, it’s the same number of characters! So what did you gain by replacing the “e” with the “‘”. And try and make sense of the ‘ and the ” when it…Continue reading→
A sunset and a dream
Fiction A Poetic Start The rays of sleepy Sol, orange and pink and shades of red, shone like a blanket of tulips seen from afar, waving ever so gently, caressed by zephyrs in the gathering dusk. Pink tinged feathers of clouds striped the fading blue of the sky, as…Continue reading→
Music and I
Music Music and I have had a longish relationship. It all started when I was a little lad of ten, no.. hang on, a lad of four or five. After The Great Awakening it became even more of a.. Ah let’s start over. (And yes, there’s a video at the…Continue reading→
2022 – A Retrospective
2022 – A Retrospective If you were to look back at the year, perform a sort of retrospective of the year 2022, what do you believe would emerge from the welter of thoughts, emotions and experiences? But, how does one even begin to conduct such an experiment? How, indeed, do…Continue reading→
Modesty
This Thing Called Modesty Prologue I started blogging in 2008, mostly short, tentative, stuttering posts. In 2010ish, blessed with some free time away from work, I was encouraged to write, so I sat me down and began. The lesson was swift and cruel. I found I had no idea how…Continue reading→
Curiosity
Curiosity I’m sure you’re curious about my interest in Curiosity. Or should be. Well, if you are interested in Curiosity I have nothing but curiosity for your interest. In Curiosity. Why? Before we can answer the question, though, I feel that we should explore some definitions and lay out some…Continue reading→
Landscape Photographs
Landscape Photographs I know I promised a few people I would share an essay on Curiosity and quite a few said they were, uh.. curious about an essay that I would or could write about curiosity. Nobody I polled cared about landscape photographs. There was no interest in landscape photographs,…Continue reading→