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whence creativity? # 500
These are some thoughts about where the ideas which appear in the forefront of our minds come from. See what you make of them. It’s just a kind of metaphor that popped up in my own mind. A river of...
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Poem: A Free Spirit # 510
This is the latest of my ‘effortless’ poems which I write down as fas as the words come, rather than trying to craft the lines in a ‘poetic’ or stylistic way. A free spirit Being a free spirit is what...
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Another day # 512
My brother, aged 88, died last night in care for dementia. I endure… Another day Another day, like all of us, one nearer to the end. But ‘so what?’ I say. I’ve learned to live each day and enjoy it...
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Planck’s Quantum Puzzle #513
Planck’s Constant Puzzle Our world of every day has rules we need to know. Not all of them, by any means, but enough to let us go on with our lives. About a century ago, the quantum world was found....
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Great, just great #521
One of my sons is a grandfather. You know what that makes me. I never planned it. for sure. As a young man I took it for granted that I would have children – that was what everybody did in those...
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A book review #525
I’ve just been reading an apparently endless review, from the New Yorker, of a best-selling book by a Scandinavian author. It’s called ‘My Struggle’ as was Hitler’s magnum opus. Apparently he has a...
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God(s) and the Universe # 535
Don’t be put off! This isn’t a religuious rant – or an anti-religious one… I’ve been thinking that everything within the physical universe we know has to obey the physical laws of the universe, so far...
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How close to one’s children? #538
Life has many mysteries. Not least of these is the way my descendants and I relate to one another. It’s not entirely mysterious; at an early age I made up my mind that I would never control my children...
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The real future we live in #551
Let me start by saying that I’m a Time Traveller. I come from the 1920s, nearly a century ago. To those of you born more recently, it would appear a primitive world. Long distance travel was by rail,...
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Limerance
I was going to title this blog ‘Lasting Love’ but then decided that ‘Limerance ‘ would be more eye-catching. The word was invented by psychologist Dorothy Tennov in 1979, but I only became aware of it...
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