The ships that took Odysseus back to Ithaka were never and will never be named: yet their journey would be remembered for eons. This blog is just a snapshot of the thoughts in my head, on my journey to wherever I'm going. Come along for the ride.
There are things you do for yourself. Buying yourself a warm cup of coffee on a cold day, putting the laptop aside and deciding that work can, in fact, wait until tomorrow. There are things you do for others. Holding the door open for a stranger, buying a drink for a friend. And there are …
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Not all my poems are quite as brooding and serious as the previous material I’ve posted on this blog might suggest. Occasionally, I find it an interesting exercise to try and have some fun through good ol’ fashioned social satire. Without further ado, here are my satirical takes on life in poem form. Humanism Pride …
On occasion, in periods of boredom or anxiety or even at complete random, amorphous, fuzzy images enter the faint recesses of my mind. They lay just out of reach, not tangible enough for me to be able to draw them or describe their features and characteristics. These images exist more as a tumultuous clash of …
The world of mankind seems to me to be built upon a foundation of facades and collective fictions. Not all of these are sinister, of course. I have fictions to thank for government, economics, politics, law, all such amorphous castles in the clouds. Yet there exist mirages that lead us into deserts and wastelands where …
The Galley with No Name