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Not being blessed, or, sometimes, cursed, with wings, except in our dreams, with which to fly and partake in the joys of seeing the Earth and its wonders from above.  It is left to us humans that we should only be able to defy gravity for prolonged periods of time.   In the flying machines we have invented, or, probably with some envy, in watching the beauty of the birds which do not obey the command of gravity. Please take a look at this video, and, if you are so inclined, do enjoy its momentary aerial delights!

So, why does a society has to have prisons; is it self-evident? Does a society needs to have prisons so that it can incarcerate 'bad people'? ⏳ Those people who poses a serious risk to the health and welfare of its citizens and/or  the essential state of the organs of the society.  Dangerous people. But society, including 'modern and enlightened societies', do not have prisons just to incarcerate 'dangerous', 'evil' and 'wicket people', real or imagined or suspected.  No, the incarceration of people has become a way of life for probably most societies.  They have become an industry, with the incarceration and processing of 'prisoners' becoming the products of this rather insidious industry.  One which has a vested interest in the generation and processing of the 'raw material' - the criminalisation of ordinary people - to keep the industry going.  Yes, as well as in the retention and punishment of  those citizen

It is not easy for an abused woman to have to confront another day of her partner abusing her and her and her children living in fear of his rage.  It is not easy to have to confront another day of debilitating pain, even if it has become the cost of continuing to live the life you are living; having to live. These are states of being, of being worried, of being anxious, of being fearful, of being stressed, which we carry from one day to the next, and not having the convenience of being able to just drop or shed them.  As we do to dirty clothes. As we do to the dirt we wash off our bodies, so that we can feel refreshed. No, the mental and psychological challenges which have become a part of our being, are challenges which we are fated to carry around with us, from day to day.  Yes, they might accumulate or they might become diminished and even dormant. But they remain with us.  If we become more skilful and resourceful at managing them, then their control or

It is true that, to some extent, like childhood in developed and developing and lesser developed countries around the world.  'Old age' and becoming old has become less static and more elasticated.  The perception of 'being old' has become more informed by economics and social changes.  Even though our bodies continue to bear irrefutable 'proof' of our ageing. As does the efficiency of our mental faculties. We could see 'becoming old' as a process, which, of course, is a gradual one.  A process which, depending on the peculiarities of the forces of production, distribution and supply and demand, and the personal circumstances of each person.   Will influence when the majority of working men and women exit the workforce. Growing old is not a process in which only time and fate, as it were, do things to us. Such as adversely impacting our physiology and our spirit, as if it desires to drag us down.  Back into the earth from which we

For many, if not most of us, we begin the day with by changing some or all of the clothes we had on the day before.  We might even have a wash, shower or bath, so that we can feel fresh and make a fresh start to what is, after all, a new day.  We can, you might say, endeavour to change the things which we can more easily change, so as to give ourselves a positive start to the day. Enhance our chances of having a good day. Of course, making physical and material preparations for the challenges of the day, are likely to be more within our control.  Or, at least, for may of us who are not experiencing chronic or acute poverty and water shortage, whether due to its high cost and/or scarcity. The more difficult preparation is probably in the mental or psychological field.  We can shed our clothes and even the grime which has built up on us during the day.  However, how do we shed or reduce the mental and psychological accumulation of stresses, anxieties an

We have got the Robert De Niros, the Serena Williams, the Halle Berrys, the Tina Turners, et al.  All of whom are or have been in ethnically mixed relationships.  In fact, as has been indicated by the reconstructed history of the ' Cheddar Gorge Man ', any or most contemporary humans trace their ancestry far enough back into our recent evolution, we will find that we are all descended from the same human tree. But, such is our almost inescapable preoccupation with our 'racial', ethnic and cultural differentiation or diversity.  With our feelings and beliefs about our and others perceptions of feelings 'racial' and 'ethnic' insecurities and 'inferiority' and 'superiority.'  That there is, it seems, always submerged tensions between people, just waiting to be vented into open and sometimes violent conflict, There is a perceived and an actual difference between the male and the female of the human species.   Howeve

The is something about us humans and water and its frightening and/or therapeutic effect on us.  It could be something to do with our early human amphibian stage of gestation. Please take a look and have a listen, and see if you are able to extract some enjoyment out of this short video of a few moments on a given day in Bournemouth.

It is the fate of some of us humans that, not only are we fated to experience the enjoyable, the painful and anxiety provoking events of our childhood, our early adulthood and our middle-age.  But also the period in our lives where in which we become old. Providing, of course, we should be find ourselves to be blessed.   Not only to have survived to achieve old age, but to experience reasonably good health and enjoyment in that period.  For some of us, old age might well be a period of added tribulations.  Especially if our younger years were a time of much struggle, in our pursuit of the frequently too elusive 'happiness' which we all aspire toward. Speaking of 'being old', I am not referring to the process in which a child grows older, becoming an adolescent, a young adult.  And then attains the age of what might be considered to be that of a mature adult.  One who, in all likelihood, should or is likely to find themselves responsible for not only

So, how do we prepare for the challenges which we are to confront each day?   What are the challenges we will face will undoubtedly have some impact on how we prepare ourselves for them. We can make plans to meet those challenges which we know about.  Such as the more routine ones. The ones we are faced with every day or most days. Such as, yes, what will we wear to work tomorrow?  What are we, or, more pertinently, what will I give the children for their lunch? Who is going to collect them from school for me, while I keep my regular after work 'keep Fit appointment.?  What am I going to 'do for dinner tomorrow? Jesus, how am I going to cope with the rush hour morning commute, again?  And what about the evening rush hour?  Oh god, I really do not want to think of it, now, you might think.   Of course, for some children, it might not be about how are they going to wake up on time to do their chores and get the bus to school on time.  It might be a

Probably one of the most profound and resonating experience many of us who have had the probably good fortune.   Of living in zinc roofed dwelling at some point in our lives, is that of listening, sometimes with fear, of heavy showers falling onto the roof.  It is an experience which never leaves those of us who have experienced it. Please take a look and have a listen, and see what, if any past, hopefully pleasant, memories, this video evokes from within your reservoir of accumulated memories.

There are also other symbolisation which the Royal Wedding could represent.  Such as its political significance, and its significance, if any for the advancement of Britain, as a society which 'fully' reflects and values its 'racial', ethnic and cultural diversity.  Indications of which we have seen in the organisation and conduct of the wedding. However, although it is, or, more accurately, had been the case that Royal Weddings are not weddings between two people.  But rather, where the bride and groom are from different countries, are between their two Kingdoms and countries.  In the 21st Century society in which we are living today, at least, probably the majority of us.  It is only fitting that we should first celebrate the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, as that representing the love of a man and a woman for each other.  Both carnal and spiritual love. Of both of them being the soulmate of the other. No more and no less so