All of a sudden I have toothache… What a bastard that is. The wife has Google’d several remedies and I have shoved all sorts of stuff into my gob. Bizarrely it isn’t too bad right now. So I can concentrate on an interesting post right? Don’t get too excited about that, my life is mundane, my literacy is poor and my imagination departed soon after the realisation that the real world my Parents warned me about, actually (exists). Although my perception of reality is quite different from that of my Parents, maybe because I am an engineer and the technical advances are… yeah ok with me. Or maybe because the religious backbone that once had society in it’s grip has since been uncompressed. Whereas I can quite understand my Dad’s frustration when trying to set up his new digital TV, I patiently offer advice that scoots aimlessly at a 45 degree angle above what used to be a technically competent person, though now in his mid seventies. I deal with old people on a daily basis and I do not consider my parents old, I don’t know whether that is because they are who they are, or whether they really do rock for their age. My old man still climbs roof ladders and scaffolding to do do his house repairs and my Mum keeps an immaculate garden and cooks a mean Apple Pie 😉
So toothache to Apple Pie. Could’ve been shorter hey.
February 22nd, 2015
Spotted a strange thing in the sky today and pointed it out to the wife that Venus had a partner, not a distant star but what appeared like a moon, only Venus doesn’t have any. After a little research I discovered it was Mars coupled with Venus, together in the early evening sky with a crescent moon. The Roman Goddess of Love and God of War dancing with a waxing crescent Moon, the Moon representing our deepest personal needs, our basic habits and reactions, and our unconscious. Many believe we are living in the ‘End of Days’ and you will find a myriad of representations of all sorts of planetary phenomena to back up their claims along with powerful poetic references from the Bible and other historical works of literature, I myself have always encompassed a pessimistic outlook, not because I never wanted to be disappointed nor the one to say ‘I told you so,’ more-so because of an overwhelming angst that consumed me through my late teens and twenties. Now a days I try to believe that a future does exists but still find it difficult, the way I deal with that is to live in the present and just do what ever is necessary as it arises. Alignments of the planets have occurred throughout history and mankind is still in existence, an old Uncle of mine said it well during the visitation of Hale-Bop in 1997, that apparently, as the saying goes, there follows a period of great misery after the visitation of a comet in the skies, his comment quite sarcastically was, ‘Periods of great misery in humanity follow every event.’ Something will always happen before any catastrophe, quite randomly or even coincidentally. Tonight though I was in awe of the planets spiralling with the moon on this very clear winters evening.
February 22nd, 2015
