And on the subject of old men, the woman who cuts my hair
was telling me today that she’s been seeking advice about the menopause, and my
neighbour occasionally talks about her bowel problem. It strikes me that a chap
must accept he’s getting on a bit when women talk to him about menopausal and
bowel issues. I assume they think he’s past caring.
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...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
About Me
- JJ
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- I've never had money because I've never been driven by money. I received little formal education beyond the age of sixteen, which isn't such a bad thing since you get a different angle on life that way. Learning what you want and need to learn often reveals things that the system's road keeps hidden.
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...until death do re-unite or the Priestess return to Avalon.
Khalil Gibran on Children.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
OMAR KAYYAM ON REGRET.
The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Herman Hess on Nobility
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self .
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I have another blog called A Handful of Stories on which I've posted some of my short fiction. Most of it has been published by a variety of independent small press publishers, so somebody other than me must have thought it worth reading.
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6 comments:
Or you're just an exceptional person to talk to
Thank you, Wendy, but I don't think so - not in this case, anyway.
How do you respond to this?
Laugh and feel sorry for me? Poor potty training made me ill-fitted to entertain any mention of bowels. I can just about handle the menopause.
No, i mean how do/did YOU respond when someone is/was telling you about their bowels or menopause. Someone was actually telling me about her menopause day before yesterday and even though we're both women i didn't really know what to say to her over-sharing of information i did not care to hear. Its an awkward subject for sure, hehe.
These two women didn't go into too much detail, so I got away with the odd 'oh' and 'really?'
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