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'Like death and bereavement, at times when we are experiencing what seems like 'our worse nightmares.'   We tend not to be aware of the fact that, 'our worse nightmares' are in fact no more than everyday adversities which many other people are having to contend with.' And with Kazaliwa’s anger now much abated and replaced with what seemed to be an ironic sense of euphoria.  All 3 of them were feeling a sense of peace, and were able to discuss this most recent episode of violent and challenging behaviour by their son.  Until the next time, which would not be long in arriving. And so Kazaliwa and the rest of the family continue to live - though there were times when to describe it as such would have been grossly inaccurate - their individual and collective lives.   With the overhanging clouds of uncertainty and anxieties which it entails becoming their 'norm.'  Oftentimes it was a miserable and very stressful ti

'There is no ascertainable evidence in the history of us humans, to support the argument that we need to fear 'God.' Or that any 'God' wants us to fear  or prostrate ourselves to them. All the evidence is that it is ourselves, specifically other humans,  who would and will do us harm, for not fearing their unproven 'God.' Everything else should be legitimate subject for scientific enquiry. Including the issue of the existence or non-existence of  a sentient and omnipotent and omniscient 'God.'  And no, it will not do for anybody to legitimately make the claim that, 'the existence of such a 'God' cannot be proven or disproved.'  Yes, it is not inconceivable that there could be a very powerful being somewhere out their in the infinity of the cosmos. Indeed, such a conjecture does not really has to become the subject of serious enquiry by us humans.  It is, after all, not something we can seriously inves

On rare occasions she will overcome her negative approach and actually enjoy a meal she had previously set her mind against.  For the most part, however, food, next to her aches and pains, is likely to continue to be my dear mother's biggest bug-bear, cause celebre for the rest of her life.  These are, it seems, the issues which interest her most. Along with her much voiced dissatisfaction with with the people who has most dealing with her.  Yes, including me, it seems. You see, my dear mother is probably sometimes - if not most times - better than I am, at concealing her dissatisfaction with how I deal with some of the things impacting on her life.  I imagine you do not live to attain the age of 100 without learning how deal with some tricky situations.  Even if it is sometimes to make it appears that you are more vulnerable and capable than you really are. There are times when she, probably not surprisingly, will become too fixated on one thi

'...We should use new facts and scientific data to study and analyse what we have been told about 'God' and our religions.  And not use our religions and received data about 'God' to interpret the new and empirical knowledge. Putting the inanimate 'cart before the living horse', as it were...' And even where the asking of such questions might be considered reasonable or tolerated.   The assumption is that 'there are no answers to them', or that only the prescribed answers are acceptable to the religious establishment.  Now, it is not, and should not be the modus operandi of contemporary humans that we necessarily accept that there is only one answer for any phenomena.   Unless such a position is informed by, or predicated upon scientific enquiry. This is one of what we might call the 'uninaliable rights' of us humans.  That we should not take anything for as a given, unless it is something like th

More so than it might be for men. I continue to traverse the canal path, observing here and there some ducks, or Moor Hens, and then a couple of swans.  Having reached as far as I had wanted to go, with the rain now increasing in its intensity, I made an about turn and retraced my foot steps, as it were.  Along the way I passed first, a cyclist, and then two runners going in the opposite direction. The latter clearly in training to improve their running skills.  I made way for them to pass me, as they did so with us exchanging greetings during the manoeuvre. It was not long before I was back at the point where I had descended the steps from the canal bridge, and repeated the manoeuvre.   But this time ascending, rather than descending the steps to the top of the bridge, and making my way across the road to retrieve my prescription and then making my way home.

Not because we are homicidal maniacs, but because the conducive set of abnormal circumstances have taken momentary control of us and, as it were, weaponised us.  We become the instruments of the personified circumstances rage and intent to perpetrate destructive acts.  We, or most of us, I believe, are all capable of momentarily shedding our moral compass and fall prey to committing terrible but unpremeditated violence.   Or slipping our cloak of self-preservation and commit great acts of selflessness. And it only takes a proverbial short time for us to commit either the grossest act of violence, or the magnanimous and selfless act of saving another person's life.  It could be the unreasonableness and stupidity of a security guard who, for what would have to be an unrelated reason.  Prevents a shopper from using the supermarket's toilet to have a pee, when he/she is struggling to maintain their dignity.   And then attacking the shopper when they challeng

So, think about it; could you kill somebody or risk sacrificing yourself to save another person's life?  Well, yes, you probably do have the capacity to kill or save someone.  You might be thinking, no, I am not a killer, I could not take the life of someone, probably because you are thinking of how ultimate, how terrible it is to kill something, never mind another human being.  So, you imagine, no, I could not kill another person. Well, yes, you are probably right that, ordinarily, you could not, or, should I more accurately say, you would not kill another person.  And 99.99 per cent of the time, this could be accurately said of probably most people.  Ordinarily the greatest majority of us humans are not prone to commit homicide.  However, this is not so for that small proportion of us who will kill or save others, outside of the remit of general warfare or genocidal conflicts.  And what is even more concerning, is the likelihood that probably most of u