Hopeful Travel

What do I hope for when I am unsure
that my life is being drained of purpose
and that I can't stop it going that way?

That the time spent getting there
will be much longer than the arrival.  

Time Outside Of Time

How does time pass with nothing,
no mechanism or social calendar,
to mark it's passage into eternity?

Time passes the same way it would
with days and other markers to follow,
let life prove times passage is the same
whether it is marked by activity,
as much as when it is not.   

My Second Advent Card Of 2025

Ruined Country: Old Battlefield, Vimy, near La Folie Wood, 1918
by British landscape painter Paul Nash (1889 - 1946).

 

Like Temptation

Christmas does not just knock on the door,
but presses on the doorbell until you respond
and leaves messages for you on your answerphone
for you to respond to whoever you faintly connect with.

We can escape, to where the season of goodwill 
has no reach. A true holiday, away from it all,
would be to stay in an Islamic country,
as long as you are comfortable with
their police state/human rights record. 

Signs Of Greater Age (43)

1-The necessity of an electric under blanket in winter,
over which to make sure of a good nights sleep. Along with....

2-A 'big foot' in which your feet may rest whilst at the table
when the rest of the house is enduring the winter chills.  

2-For those with online lives that never stop
a heated mouse mat in which to warm the hands
whilst clicking forward with your life.  

Giving Tuesday

Is the day, in this digital age,
that is meant to be the counterpart
to the mass corporate temptations
of Black Friday that fuels the adverts
that the likes of YouTube could not do without.

The biggest downside of Giving Tuesday
is how much the adverts for the charities
that try to take advantage of the event
look like every advert you have ever seen,
where the gloss put on what is on display
as 'needy' undercuts the idea of giving to charity.
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Picture Set Of The Month - December - Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita - Pictures Of Birds

Stork, Maguar stork, as created in 1914 
by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (1868 - 1944).

'Parakeets' as created in 1927 by
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (1868 - 1944).
 

'Heron in a Cage' as created in 1915
by Dutch artist Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita,
lest we forget, was a man who died in Auschwitz.

Galah cockatoo. or Roseate cockatoo,
as presented in this lino cut style drawing
by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita. This is one
of many works rescued from the home of the 
ailing Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita by
his pupil M. C. Escher and others immediately
after the arrest of Mesquita, his wife and son
by the Nazi invaders of Amsterdam.