Ray Davies, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Solstice
cindyphillips Today’s Brew: Existentialism, English pop, and a shared birthday June 21st isn’t just the solstice. It also happens to be the birthday of two men who couldn’t have looked more…
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WHY NOT NOW?
You own your story, why not write it now? Is there a story inside you just waiting to be told? Whether you’re at the beginning of your writing journey, stuck…
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled? Work fulfills me by enabling me to buy pet food. My work brings added joy when I see an author’s…
EARWIG, CAREFUL HOW YOU GO!
“There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin’…
ROTTERDAM IS ANYWHERE ALONE
Aesop’s Fables, The World’s Best Known Collection Of Morality Tales (circa 260 BC), provides the first instance of the caution ‘Be careful what you wish for’. I thought of this…
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
Have you thought about what kind of “senior living community” you want to die in? Godawful phrase that, innit, Senior Living? For most of my peers it is a perpetual…
EFFUSIVELY AFFLUENT FROM FRIENDSHIPS
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin…
CAN WE UNRAVEL THE BAMBOOZLE?
We’ve got ourselves a new cabinet, a brand new South African government; anything could happen. It’s all subjunctive, it’s all ‘what if this happens’, or ‘why didn’t they…’, that’s what…
BLOOMING MARVELOUS
As Quentin Crisp said, “Flowers are words even a baby can understand.” And so, abit of happy news amidst the squalid stream of bilge this afternoon. According to the Daily…
DON’T FEED THE ALGI
Categories: Stream of consciousness about all sorts of shit. (This is not a poem.) Sometimes it’s all a person can do to just go with the flow, but when –…