Problem N – 28th July 2022

Too much, and thinking is affected
The past is a time still being perfected
Forever with us as a problem somehow
Living in the past instead of the now


Humanity’s state of mind has been distorted by its own bloody history.

Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to enjoy falling asleep to weird interesting music. I love that feeling and sometimes reminds me of listening to John Peel as a teenager or jazz on the radio in the early hours.

My Hey Hey My My – 23rd July 2022

A bond recognised on first meeting
A tortured mind on the brink of defeat
Birds of a feather are caught in one net
Unable to understand the reward of retreat

Burning brightly before burning out
A load shot way too premature
Always fighting for what is right
Even when that right is so unsure


Whether as messiah, or as refugee, I can always use what resources I have to try and live a happy life.

Luo Ji, The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

Hibernation – 19th July 2022

Waking up two hundred years from now
This must really be a decent age
The past will just seem as a dream
Painting old words to the page

Turn back now those two hundred years
This is a decent age here right now
Without comparison we are blind
To our own experiences somehow


What I am is constantly thrust into my face while I’m trying to be better than I am.

Allie Brosh

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to have had a few days away in Bangkok and to be back at home again. I like to travel but I love my home more.

The Dark Forest – 2nd July 2022

An invasion is coming
Some are set to flee
To claim a heritage
To remain forever free

Who gets on the ship?
Who’ll steer the way?
There’s limited space
For an unlimited stay

A reckless endeavour
Deciding who to save
The smart or the rich
A master or a slave

Inspired by the book of the same name.
18th Oct 2024 – Shared with Word of the Day Challenge – unlimited


The growth of an acute sense of the past and future, gives us a corresponding dim sense of the present.

Alan Watts

Mine – 13th June 2022

This here is my property
But it’s only a word to say
It’s just a thing to hold on to
And let go of again one day

Built on years of hard work
Though hardly blood, sweat and tears
Each inch contains a memory
That remains ’til the end of years

That twinkle is all I can hold
And will always take me to that time
That feeling cannot be taken away
And will forever then be mine


The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape.

Liu Cixin from The Dark Forest

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 for making music that makes me smile and tap my toes in the morning.


The Week That Was – 26th August 1979