I have a little problem. I have several families of country rats living in the vicinity of my garden. I can’t deny that they’re cute. They really are, especially the babies. But I also have a young apple tree which I planted three years ago and which has borne fruit for the first time this year. There were twenty seven apples on it in April. Now there’s one. Why? Because the little furry varmints have been climbing up it, nipping the apples off and then carrying them away.
There’s no point in blaming them. They’re wild animals, and the first rule of being a wild animal (apart from finding another, amenable wild animal of the opposite sex) is Find food: Eat food. How else would they survive?
I’ve tried speaking nicely to them, but it hasn’t worked so far. I wouldn’t want to do them any harm, because that isn’t in my nature. So what do I do? Come in, Findhorn.
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.
Anyone interested in viewing the availablity of my novel Odyssey or novella The Gift Horse can do so here.
To Be Retained...
...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 .
Free Fiction
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.
All the permanent pictures and some of the posted ones on this blog are my copyright. Most of them, however, are placed with a picture library which holds the licensing rights. I don't, therefore, have the legal right to grant permission to use them.
An Inhabitant of the Hungry Ghost Realm
This character appears in one of my short stories, and also in the novel. He's sadder than he looks, poor thing.
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