Guilty happy: a sunny winter day between storms
So it’s a calm, sunny winter day after a week of wild winds and thunderous rainfall. I feel a guilty happiness, enjoying what so recently was normal.
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Instant poem: Not my sun
Now late I know
the sun is not mine alone
not a personal sun but a neutral one
its warming trapped and magnified
by too many frantic us.
Someone else’s problem—a poem
You know what it’s like to know a fact that everybody knows and to tuck it away, ho hum as someone else’s problem—a poem
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Life cycle of the human psyche: Me! Now!
Today’s cartoon is a view of the life cycle of the human psyche. And of senior guilt. Me! Now! say the children, as they must. Shifting personal gratification off its pedestal as the number one aim in life is a struggle. And personal development, idolised by thousands from Maslow to Paltrow, can be seen as […]
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Longevity guilt with salad (2 poems and a cure)
Here I am, fit and healthy and housed and 81. Longevity guilt gets us nowhere. How to be useful? That’s the cure.
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