Shameless View Grab

Just noticed I'm close to 10,000 all time views so this. Keywords. . . . Hmmmm. . . . Boobs. Sex. War. Nude. Trump. Coronavirus. Fire. Climate. Climate change. Climate crisis. Impeach. Impeachment. Drugs. Star Wars. That'll do. And an eye grabbing photo: Carnival, Brunswick Heads NSW. Greta Thunberg. Kobe Bryant. Now we wait. . …

Changing climate

Wind rises. Takes heat from the Air. Brings chop to the Water. So we wait Exhausted. But happy Relaxed. Expectant. We eat Rice and vegetables and white meat. Smoking too many Cheap cigarettes. Contemptuous of Death. Resigned to it but Sensing a comfortable distance. The wind drops Blows glass in its absence. So we venture …

US and UK – Love and Other Deprivations – Part Four of Nine

Laura and her French-north African boyfriend Larry were revelations. I really gained an even greater if possible positive appreciation of Emma through her associates, and took their warm welcome of me as a good sign. Sadly, I found out from her at the end of the night that her friends’ almost decade-long relationship had not …

US and UK – California Dreaming – Part One of Four

I flew out of Gold Coast Airport on Friday, October 12, 2012, at 10.30am. Destination: Los Angeles. The first coherent passage of the notepad I kept during the almost three month trip refers to a Time Magazine article I was apparently reading on the plane. In it Ilan Halevi, a Jewish Palestinian Liberation Organisation member …

Full Moon Surfing

Surfing is something that resides in treasured depths of not just my mind, but also my heart. It would require countless blog posts for me to comprehensively philosophise about it, and many more to properly discuss more technical or practical elements of it. This post will concern night surfing. And particularly one night surf. Though …