Serendipities Of A Writer's Life

Here’s a shocking report on AFP that speaks for itself.:

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Oceans’ Fish Could Disappear in 40 Years: UN
By AFP
May 17, 2010 “AFP” — NEW YORK (AFP) – The world faces [...]

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Here’s a headline and news story that caught my attention – it was published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which is not usaually a source of alarmist environmental doom.   The story speaks for itself.  The notion that so much life on earth might be wiped so that humans can do whatever we want surely puts [...]

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If you read this quote from Eugene V. Debs you may 9or may not) agree that is a sorry commentary on America today.
Then look when the words were spoken.

” It is extremely dangerous to exercise the constitutional right of free speech in a country fighting to make democracy safe in the world…..

These are [...]

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Even when “Adventure” is our middle name, we often shrink from making too drastic decisions that would really cut our lives adrift from the sameness and security that we also like to enjoy day to day.  And how can anyone just “sail away” when they have children and want to give them the best of [...]

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It’s with considerable relief that I’ve received comments on my recent post Goodbye mother Ganges.  I long delayed even publishing the post because to some, who had seen a draft, it seemed unnecessarily pessimistic.  Who wants to hear a foreigner being critical of India’s headlong rush to consumerism?  However, in the end, I decided it [...]

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If you haven’t already heard of the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve, at the north-west tip of North America, chances are very good that you will be hearing a lot about the Reserve from oil companies and politicians pushing to get the area opened up to drilling for oil.  But here’s a great new documentary about [...]

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At school, my maths teacher (Major Melluish, a marvellous man) told my parents, “Dennison must realize that mathematics is not a debatable subject.”  Really?  So perhaps that’s why I’ve come so late in life to an understanding of the mathematical wonder of the exponential factor.  Never heard of it?  Well, it’s the genie that’s running [...]

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You are what you eat, having become what you ate.  I’ve written two previous posts about food and some of the alarming aspects of what’s on our plates, how it got there and what it’s doing to the land, the people, the animals and society.
I am very grateful to my friend Professor Magdalena Krondl, Professor [...]

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You are what you eat, having become what you ate.  Not the exact words of the Buddha two and half thousand years ago.  What he said, in the opening words of the Dhammapada, was, ” You are what you think, having become what you thought.”  Not so very different, I would argue.
So what do you [...]

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If you’ve every dreamed of a quieter, simpler life – then this short story is for you.  Though it’s a favourite among cruising sailors (for obvious reasons when you read it), Martyr’s story is really about the yearning all of us feel from time to time to be FREE.

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