Live while you are alive
Two 80 year old men, Mike and Joe, have been friends all of their lives. Joe was dying and Mike visited him every day. One day Mike says ” Joe, we both loved our rugby all our lives, and we played together on saturdays for many years. Please do me favour, when you get to …
The Strangler Fig tree. at The Moorings, Islamorada: Were you a harmless, nameless tree, just standing there Motionless and proud, your boughs spread wide, The product of a hundred fruitful summers, Surviving the convulsions of Caribbean hurricanes, Cold fronts and brisk north winds, You might neither notice nor much care about The arrival, perching quietly, of …
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“Sticking with what they believe has never helped political leaders”. (Cicero Epistulae ad Familiares, 1, 9, 21. LXVI)
“Young people are fuelling the coronavirus.” So suggested the World Health Organisation last month, after youngsters defying distancing rules were blamed for rising infection rates across Europe. In Preston, UK, councillors even urged local youth not to “kill granny”. But the young are not to blame for this pandemic. They are its “forgotten victims”. UK …
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“How old were you when you realised that hard work and sacrifice weren’t worth it? Some realise it at retirement, when, after a lifetime of indispensability and missed weekends, they have failed to reach the top and are smoothly replaced and forgotten within a month or two. For others the revelation strikes later. ‘I wish …
