While there is still time

"What a strange, wondrous thing, music. At last the chattering mind is silenced. No past to regret, no future to worry about, no more...

So we had to kill Jimmy, end his suffering, or so we thought, reduce his already brief life as a fish. Euthanize, that is the word. A fish. ...

"...The road twists and banks and curlecues and descends and we and the cycle smoothly roll with it, following it in a separate grace ...

After the teacher asked if anyone had a sacred place and the students fidgeted and shrank in their chairs, the most serious of them all...

"It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that...

Two Cats It's better to be a cat than to be a human. Not because of their much-noted grace and beauty— their beauty wins them no ad...

"After years of patient study I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game (cricket) that the introduction of golf carts wo...

My French artist friend Fred's beautiful sketches, drawn during his many wanderings, across many continents. He used to show me these s...

"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract convicti...

Impatience. And Drifting. Listen - http://www.myspace.com/clioharp

"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering...

If an ant got into your food packet and you travelled hundreds of kilometers and he had to get down in a strange place all lost and bewilde...

A new wave of anti-Semitism alarms France, so magazines say. The Jews back in the dock. Reminded me of this novel about a little Jewish boy ...

Passing through Cubbon Park in the morning, I see men feeding crows in a mango grove. Remembered this Polish lady I met who said that pigeon...

Mother was agitated all morning. A call had come from her brother Harold, who was spoken of only in whispers and despised by those with ...