The Scent Of Regret

As first blended to perfection by Soren Kieragaard

                                  in 1843, and lived, and read, around the world ever since.

   Sample: 'What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.'.               

 

Picture Of The Day - Two Great Blue Herons

A Great Blue Heron offers stick to his lady for the nest.

Photogaphy:Jocelyn Anderson.

 

The 'Kitchen Sink',

or maximalist, approach to the use of the public media
by any government, to declare that government achievements,
using as many variations of explanations as the public will accept,
sure gets wearing after a very short period in a governments life.

No wonder then, that public cynicism soon throws out the baby
with kitchen sink and stops listening when the first word or phrase
of the news remains the name of the leader for too long any period of time.

Then, people of vision have to look further for their inventive streak,
to reinforce how the news agenda should be about wider views
than the narrow 'kitchen sink' presentations the government prefers.     

The Short And The Long Of It

As America looks to the stars
and re-engineers the world economy
to create new gutters for the poor of world
to look up from, whilst extending
the new world-wide economic depression
via wars it has no idea how to withdraw from,
then many more countries can have their slice
of a shrinking world econmy where those with less
will know the short and the long of it the soonest.

The short will be the thrust of glory America projects
as it fills television screens everywhere with images of feats
of engineering the world had not dared believe in before.

The long of it will be the distortions in world trade,
as the sale in arms, from cheap and deadly drones
upward, outstrips the evolving peace time economy
as seen from wind farms to macro solar energy projects
like the water pumps donated across the continent of Africa
where heat from the sun feeds the pumps that draw water
from bore holes deep in the earth to support the crops
in a new wave of sustainable living for those with the least,
at least where their government is good terms with it's neighbours.

Demi-Sexuality

This flag is the flag for asexual pride. Anyone-straight, gay, or other-
can be demi-sexual. Because for demi-sexuals the emotional bond
has to be confirmed first. The sexual component to the relationship comes
 ...much later.

In this flag being asexual (being emotionally, rather than sexually, attracted
to another) is represented by the black stripe.
Those who are half interested in the idea of sex
are represented by the grey stripe. Those who are fully commited
to sexual exprression within a relationship, and their allies,
are sybolised by the white stripe.
Whilst the purple stripe represents the wider asexual community.
 
 In a world far more mature and patient than the world I grew up in
I would have subcribed to grey stripe. I now have the grey hair,
what there is left of it, and the beard to prove it.
I would love to have discovered this flag, and the comunnity choices
and values behind it, decades earlier than I did...  

 

Where Four Routes To Power Meet In One Leader....

With any dictator, whether their rule is built on heading the military,
leading their political party from above, the heredity of the monarchy
they are the head of, or even the theology of their theocratric rule,
or with elements from any of those four routes to one singular
cult of personality centred on one, seemngly omniscient, leaderr,
the one point they meet up and share under is the rhetoric of the leader
being echoed and repeated by mini-me copyists in a once diverse media,
which is reduced to slaveishly repeating the demands of obedience
to the will of the leader, where the slightest sliver of diversity in language
would become a cause  for heresy, but not necessarily a sign of individuality.     

Two Pink Moons

A proper pink moon as it might be seen in the skies
on the 1st and 2nd of April 2026. A sign of spring to be welcomed.

 

Meanwhile the above is all 28 mins of Nick Drake's 1972 LP 'Pink Moon' an album that is Nick Drake by himself on guitar, piano, and voice. No other backing musicians or arrangers. John Wood engineer and producer. I am a late arrival to the appreciation of the talents of Nick Drake. For a long time my thoughts about him were confined to seeing him as one of those artists who knew when he knew had said enough, and did not want to stay in the music business for the renewal of his first three album record contract, to seek further fame and fortune from an extension of his contract. Whilst I understand how the notion of 'cult artist' works, I bridle a bit at the mechanics of creating the cult around the artist. As for Nick Drake I will enjoy the guitar playing on this album, through many moons to come, moons that are either pink and given other descriptions.