Mission statement 2008.02.29

The title is meaningless, just liked the sound of it.
I have realised I am sick to the gills with everything digital. PC, internet, games, all of it. Thinking of living a life free of it, just turn the clock back a mere thirty years when I coped quite happily without mobile phones, sms messaging, internet, [...]

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Unused extract

Some I have looked at and been subdued by the beauty that lies within them. The sweet soul that shines bright in their eyes. Strength too deep to comprehend. These I call a friend. Follow your path, fashion your footsteps and tread boldly upon your road, but hear the distant ocean in your ears, the [...]

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Loves

Here she moves like a lonely ghost
Through beating rain
Switch clicks, fluorescent light flicks
On another grey day again.
The bus is packed, her mind is wracked
With thoughts of what could be.
I ran down the street, dodging the feet
Painfully racing, aimlessly chasing
Her fleeting memory.
The hands turned, the candle burned
The old house fell to black
The shadow was thrown
The grass [...]

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Chains of Mamon

I can see clearly now
The dirt clouds of pollution have lifted
I can really see now
How the final solution has shifted
There is a finality now
And none can save me from it
I am dead inside
And if the hat fits then wear it
I have seen a ship called Liberty
Sunk by the weight of greed
I have seen mountains of [...]

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Worth a read

I have just noticed this review in the Saturday Guardian.
Anatomy of melancholy
The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, by Darian Leader sounds interesting. The term depression is used as an umbrella explanation for a myriad health issues and to some extent for personality differences. Melancholy used to be used to describe personality type in the [...]

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