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AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 46.

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As we aged and are impacted by the ravages of time and systemic degradation. No longer, it seems, is my dear mother able to process, analyse and make sense of the data which is bombarding her, daily.   As well as she had been able to do, prior to her becoming what I have come to perceive as her tendency towards being deluded by it.  The information or data which she perceives, is not always or probably even most times, being perceived as I or 'more rational persons', would have interpreted it as being.  Something which makes it more likely for her, my dear mother, to become afflicted by the emotional and psychological distress we can experience.   When the demons within us temporarily escape their suppression by our rational mind. Just as how, according to our particular beliefs, when the gods or the inhabitants of 'the spirit world' intervene in the physical world of us humans.   To be continued!

A JAMAICAN CHILDHOOD - REFLECTIONS ON. PART 4.

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Which, when it rained heavily, would cut the district off from the rest of the neighbouring districts, such as Surge Island, Bath, Seaforth and Whitehall.  Due to the district being cut of by the Johnson River, running from its north-west to south-east, and the inaccessible hills and mountain ranges of the Blue Mountains running along the length of its northern boundary with the parish from that of Portland.  A major problem for the village, and one which the authorities would try to relieve.   By cutting a road in the wooded and hilly loose soil land in the east of the village, towards Whitehall.  An act of folly which resulted in major erosion problems, as the now denuded soil fell prey to the heavy rains and caused major erosion problems for both the new road and the affected lands surrounding it. The family lived in a two bedroom house, made of timber, with its roof made of sheets of zinc.  To be continued!

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON HOW NOTHING MATTERS, REALLY, BUT THE LIVING!

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But what of me, of my beliefs, which ?  Like the religious person, I, also, am being guided by the desire to achieve particular goals and ends.  Now, the ends and goals which we, the religious and non-religious, aspire towards achieving, in this life, might be similar or quite similar.  Especially where they relate to what are our basic needs, such as food, drinks, warmth, housing and socialisation.  Where they might be markedly different, is when we begin to contemplate the unknown dimension or domain, such as what happens when we die. Of course, when we die we die and are dead. Yes, there is a great deal of finality about the end which is the cessation of a once living person.  When time and breathing and the functioning of the heart stops. When the light goes out in the brain and  consciousness irrevocably cease and the process of physically rapid biological decay begins.  Because of our lack of empirical knowledge about any on-going personal 'out

Moon Photography

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The Sun, as it appears over the horizon. The Distant Moon, as seen through my telescope and recorded by my J5 Samsung Nearer to me, Lord Moon, as magnified and recorded. Another shot of Lord Moon, as observed and recorded on the same 11th  November 2019 night.

ITALIAN GRAND PRIX - ALL AT SEA AT MONZA!

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It is not the norm for Formula 1 races to hold back and allow the 'back-markers' to take the lead, in the expectation that they will manipulate the powerful but invisible aerodynamic forces which, expertly used, can give their cars invisible wings and propel greatly.  That, however, was apparently the consensus of most, if not all the drivers taking part in Q3 of the final stage of the preparations for today's, Sunday's 2019 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.  Not for love, money or fame, or Pole, it seems, could any of the drivers be motivated or encouraged to take the lead in the final lap of Q.3 and strive to get Pole.  And so it was that they all got caught out by missing the boat, as it were, and ending the Qualifying session with a dreadful splutter, and allow Charles Leclerc to take Pole by default, having taken provisional Pole with his penultimate lap.  With Team Mercedes and their drivers, Hamilton and Bottas having in similar fashion, ac

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON HOW NOTHING MATTERS, REALLY, BUT THE LIVING!

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Yes, what matters will, can only matter for the living; those of us who are still capable of comprehension and comprehending.  The dead is not able to put in a claim for a debt owned to him/her. And neither are they able to claim or demand that one which is rightfully or is believed to be owed to them.  Unless such matters be resolved on their behalf, from their legal estate, which they have left behind. And so it is, that we should be very careful about how much trust we place in other humans.  Being aware  that, although a people, a nation lives fully within the context of the past, present and the future.  The individual human live most earnestly within the context of the present, the now, as it comprises the 'yesterday, the present and the tomorrow', and gradually resonates through time and space.