Life’s currency

“Beach. You and I are very different, you seem to thrive on competition I don’t, how did you get to be so competitive?” I fear my answer will be an anticlimax or not what is expected or assumed but, (I’ve visited this before), as a little boy, from the earliest age I can recall, I … Read more

Self h

Self H I came close to doing the same thing back in December 1999 after my blissful, 20 year, love story of a marriage crumbled as a result of me getting too immersed in business. To offer an insight into how someone well loved and, seemingly, stable might ever consider doing something like taking their … Read more

Harbour

The history of Bridport’s harbour is closely tied to the town’s development as a coastal trading and fishing center. The harbour has a sheltered location on the coast and was ideally situated for trade with Europe. It is likely that the harbour has been in use for many centuries, although the first recorded mention of … Read more

Fodder

Mortal threats to Planet Earth, our own Solar System and even our own galaxy have always existed but it is also pertinent to acknowledge that the foundations and environment for the seeding for life itself was originally formulated by huge apocalyptic galactic perturbations. In our part of the cosmos, as our Solar System formed, one … Read more

Golden

Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury. This book gave me my writing style and an ability to express myself via the written word. In ‘The Foghorn’, the first short story, in just a few strokes of his pen, Bradbury paints the whole picture of humanity, offering a profound perspective on time, life, love … Read more

AI and reasoning

AI and reasoning AI can already perform 3 of the 4 types of reasoning we humans use extremely effectively and is well on the way to perfecting the 4th. Deductive Reasoning: This type of reasoning involves drawing specific conclusions from general principles or premises and AI systems excel at deductive reasoning, as they can follow … Read more

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Site structure

Site Structure I’ve broken down my life into specific themes or topics. For example. My autobiography entries span several time periods we might describe as fundamental paradigm shifts in my life. (Life one, life two, etc) There are other periods of my life worthy of entry including the vast array of hobbies, passions and past-times … Read more

Why Beach?

This opening paragraph will need further editing to make it more succinct and give it more flow and meaning but, for now, (just to get the bullet points onto this page), the following will do. I’ve had an amazing life … with experiences ranging from the sublime to the bizarre, surviving a surreal occult based … Read more

C & J from diary

C & J From diary Compared with now, our lives were simple and for me, the joy of meeting someone so, so special transformed my own life. We enjoyed a passionate and emotional relationship and we were able to share every aspect of life together. It seems utterly unbelievable now but when we moved into … Read more

Mirroring Newton

I could not have known or seen it save from the vantage point of experience and my later years but I have balanced my life and continue to balance my life, not by weighing my character or psychology in real time but by referring to the life chapters I have experienced and lived these last … Read more