While there is still time

"The day, when it is established, is barely noticed in itself; continuous interests claim us; only if there is a dramatic thunderstorm...

One freezing cold windy afternoon around Christmas time (Dec 2000), I take the subway to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Boston. Freezing cold ...

"..In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive ("Todestrieb") is the drive towards death, destruction and f...

"Because of its unique and distinctive sound, the (Shipping Forecast) broadcasts have an appeal beyond those solely interested in naut...

"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...