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I was reading ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ by Dylan Thomas. It’s a poem about an old man who seems to have had his electricity cut off, and his son is imploring him to do something about it. To pay his bill, presumably. I prefer poetry that talks about the small, everyday matters of life; I find the more lofty themes tend to go over my head. I am a late comer to poetry -over 60 years late. For me, the purpose of poetry is not to teach us things we don’t know, but rather to bring more into our consciousness things we already know but haven’t paid enough attention to. Things like the importance of paying our bills on time.

For the last two weeks I have just felt like there are so many false people and or Im one of the few who keeps it 100

The security and logistics of possibly a million people wanting to converge in Westminster to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth is an event never to be repeated. I saw a few short videos of the procession from Buckingham Palace and thought of other famous people and how it was best to handle crowds like this.
Could more people witness a procession with less security risk if she were on a funeral train?

I did some research.
President Abraham Lincoln was the first in 1865.
His presidential rail car that was never used while he was alive, was fitted as a hearse and it traveled 1,654 miles passing through 180 cities in seven states.

President Eisenhower's funeral train passed through seven states during its journey to Abilene, Kansas, which Eisenhower called home.

I don't recall if entertainer James Brown had a funeral train, but he had private services with friends and family at an undisclosed location, then a public service at the Apollo Theater in New York and another viewing at the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia.

Too late now, but I'm curious if the planners of the Queen's considered that.

Sorry, this is not an entertaining topic.

Why is Saudi Arabia not taking refugees?? But they are offering to help relocate them in Germany and have proposed to build 200 new mosques in the country to make the Syrians at home. But what is amazing, it was discovered through statistics provided by the United Nations that the majority of these are not migrants of families or children, they are single men!

One should wonder if they are refugees at all, or a sinister plot to spread and conquer Europe by the Islamic world. Anyway, we'll not live 100 years to see the consequences of this massive migration in pretext of war. But I wonder, Saudi has a vast empty land and one of the richest. In fact, 40 percent of the land in Riyadh is underdeveloped.

The Gulf state leaders know that taking thousands or millions of migrants may lead to social instability and surely this exodus contains terror elements. Without knowing it, America and Europe is inviting and welcoming hardened militants who could be sinister leaders of violence. Would Saudi funded mosques be the best venue to influence the Muslims and organized them....training and breeding extremists? Europe and America will take the burden and all the shit. Do you imagine, some refugees sue Germany for not giving them social benefits fast enough. This is an insane sad world.

Thanks for reading and comments.

All our talk was peppered with the “F” word in the schoolyard in my early teens. That’s just the way it was and seemed perfectly normal, but it never occurred to me that grownups also used that kind of language. After all, we weren’t allowed to use it in their presence, so obviously they disapproved of it. I still clearly remember being shocked the first time I inadvertently heard the word “fcuk” come from the mouth of an adult.

I’ve not been a prolific swearer since I left school. It doesn’t come as naturally to me as it does to some, and I sometimes have to deliberately increase my output to fit in with the company I am in. I don’t feel comfortable using bad language in the presence of women, and that is because when I was young, men tended not to. I certainly would never go further than a “bloody” in front of children, and only then if unavoidable.

Things are different these days, if there isn’t a fcuk in your sentence it is considered grammatically incorrect. Grandchildren are ordered back into the fcuking house before they have to be come and fcuking got by their grandparents quite regularly in some neighbourhoods.

I’m not condemning or complaining; it might not suit my sensibilities but I recognise that times change and the significance of things alters. The only thing I would say against the increased prevalence of extreme language is that it has tended to decrease its potency; the exclamation “BASTARD!” on, say, just missing your bus, or hitting your thumb with a hammer, is nowhere near as cathartic as it used to be.

1. Have the courage to live a life true to yourself, not the life others expect of you.

2. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

3. “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway


4. Don’t make decisions when you’re angry. Don’t make promises when you’re happy.

5. “Never argue with a stupid person, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” Mark twain

6. Only pack what you can carry yourself.

7. Remember you’ll always regret what you didn’t do rather than what you did.8. “You’d worry less about what people think about you if you knew how seldom they do.” David Foster Wallace

9. If you blame it on someone else, don’t expect it to get better.

10. “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, but there will always be someone who hates peaches.” Dita von Teese

11. If the grass is greener on the other side, there’s probably more manure there.

12. Don’t give up what you want most for what you want now.

13. With regards to the opposite sex: If you look hungry, you’ll starve.

14. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” Isaac Asimov

15. Strive to be the man you want your daughter to marry.

16. “Remember only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.” Stephen King

17. Never forget your car keys will change your car from one tonne of inert metal into one of the most deadly killing machines that has been invented18. Wait 24 hours before getting mad and reacting about anything. If it doesn’t bother you in 24 hours time, it probably isn’t important enough to get mad over. by Joel Willans

I’m all alone today. My sister and her husband are away for the weekend and I’m making my own food. Today I can eat what I want and when I want. My sister’s daughter invited me for lunch but I declined the offer. I need to be alone sometimes.

I maintain a personal space around me that only my lover, my parents, siblings, children, and grandchildren can violate at will. Of course, there are some other exceptions like the hairdresser, physician, dentist, and so on.

Big flirt that I am, I’m not the hugging or touching type. This is perhaps the main reason why everybody accepts my flirting. I don’t like people hanging on me and I hang on nobody. This is now the people other than a lover. She is the always welcome and I normally cannot get enough of her presence.

Other than my direct family, I seldom touch people. My friends, extended family (cousins etc), and their spouses are only permitted inside my space when we greet or congratulate each other. And then they must shake hands (or kiss) and bugger off or I will take a step backwards.

When I shake somebody’s hand and he holds onto my hand for too long, like some church brothers do, I will soon remove my hand. I’m not fond of dancing but when I do, I try to maintain my distance as well as I can.

But the funny thing is, I get annoyed when a woman offers me her cheek when I congratulate her on something. The same applies if she kisses me on the cheek when she congratulates or wishes me on something. It is just too impersonal and if she cannot kiss me on the mouth, I won’t even bother next time. Hell, I don’t have TB!

Naturally, there are times when physical contact with strangers is unavoidable. When you leave a rugby stadium after a game, it is impossible not to touch people but that type of contact does not bother me. Why would it be that I’m quite prepared to be squashed by strangers but don’t like it when a friend put his hand on my shoulder?

Have a great day and forget about the Monday blues looming on the horizon.

Something is seriously wrong in society that nowadays its too easy for a cop to get away with murder I felt threatened I'm tired of reading it as do the negros who are usually a target it.
I've been profiled and harassed by state pigs of my state of Mn they didn't believe it and I've lived homeless of the past for over a decade you see it all there disrespect of us poor just because were poor I'm white and color doesn't matter excuse me

Art and I feel privileged and honored to be able to pay our respects to Cpl Daegan Page today, the young Marine killed during an attack on the Kabul airport last month.

We were there by 4.30pm and there were already a small crowd.

Thank you for your service and sacrifice, Cpl Daegan Page. Rest easy, Marine. You’re home and you will not be forgotten

Earlier this week, Art watched this with me. He has watched it several times but first time for me.