Choices Made & Prices Paid

As I said in a previous post, I have been pondering the concept of perseverance recently and despite my best efforts to live in the present I have found myself thinking, more and more, on the past and the roads I’ve traveled this last decade. It is human nature I guess, the need to play Monday …

The Less Memorialized Side of War – Friday’s Thought

  John Singer Sargent’s painting Gassed hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London; the canvas is over seven feet high and twenty feet long. This impressive painting depicts soldiers blinded by gas being led in lines back to the hospital tents and the dressing stations; the men lie on the ground all about the tents waiting …

If I Could Turn Back Time

Harsh ReaLity, a blog run by OM suggested the idea of writing about the things we regret or mistakes we would go back and change if we could.  There are so many things that with the benefit of hindsight you would go back and change, some small others large but for me there is one …

Asylum Seekers & Australia

By now you may or may not have heard about the tragic turn of events on Manus Island that left one person dead and 77 injured. We don’t yet know if this new tragic low marks a turning point, if it’s part of Australia’s new status quo, or if it will finally be enough to …

Immortal Beloved – Cate Tiernan

    This book is the first in the trilogy and it hooks you from the get go.  The story itself in compelling but it is the characters that really draw you in most especially the lead. I have read so many books over the years and have come to realize that the characters that …

How Perspectives Change – A Past Poetic Endeavour

This is from what you may kindly call my “Dark Phase”.  What is just a little upsetting – other than the emo factor I invoked – was that I truly believed this to be something that was positive in nature. Seeing Through The Glass Darkly Sometimes the darkness calls to usAnd the light seems far from sightThere comes a time for …