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Today is my birthday. What is it about birthdays? Every year, without fail, I have a mini-breakdown. It happens around 6 weeks' prior, and happens up until a day or two before the date. The birthday blues may happen for a number of reasons: just getting older, seeing more wrinkles, an

What Happened to the Individual? Over the past couple of years, we have seen a profound attack on individual agency, autonomy and attitude. The powers that be seems to think shifting society is done via "communities" and group think. It's gross. When I was growing up there was lots of love f

Good health is sickness, apparently. Why is that people think I am sick, when I'm not? The strangest thing about the covid panic was the inversion of the idea of health. Many people felt that they were "not normal" unless they have mRNA coursing through their veins. Logically, I knew that th

Boring and uninspiring. Well that's reason enough to keep me writing. This is dedicated to the ugly, putrid, super slapper, kathyb369@protonmail.com Kathy is a kind of stalker. She loves sending me messages telling me how miserable she is ... You know, there are loads of mediocre Kathy's out

Recently I had the fortune of looking after a beautiful little dog. It was life changing. At first, I was a bit reluctant and not so sure. Cubes was the same. She sat in her little puppy basket for the first couple of days mopping about. She was off her food and only took a couple of little lick

You'd have to be living in a cave to have not heard of the Pronouns issue. The big teenage trend is for it to be an issue to misgender someone or use their pronouns incorrectly (not sure if they are the same thing, but they may well be). Yes, righto. According to a group of people, individu

I remember listening to a punk band in my teenage years. They were American, and have a song 'Americans are cool'. It was ironic. The lyrics are kind of direct (and I wonder why I have no filter): Nationalistic fuckin' crap, bullshit Want the world right in your lap, bullshit All because of whe

It's been a while since I've written. You know, life gets in the way sometimes, and you have to put things you love on hold. Without going into the details, the first half of this year was a bit of a carnage. Life, love, sickness, health, business up and down .... I'm sure we're all dealin

I Putin a lot of hard work this week. Much of this week, aside from work, was spent asking people on social media about Russia and Poutine. I mean Putin. Ironically, I had interacted more with Russians and Ukrainians this week than in my entire life. For some reason, the social media algorit

Stand Guard. The Evening I Met Bob Mould One of my favourite artists of all time is a US indie singer named Bob Mould (that’s his real name). He was the guitarist/singer for a popular independent band in the 1980s called Husker Du. Then went on to do a solo career. Mainly marked by depressin

Hey Peg? I'm guessing this post won't get many comments. And in a sense I didn't want to write it. But I HAD to! When I say, 'Hey Peg?' do you feel anything? What images does that question raise for you? Maybe Married with Children, maybe a wholesome greeting to a lady called Peg. Not

Hi everyone, I haven't forgotten about you ... I haven't even been taking time off ... I have been chasing headlights again, and just wandered down a couple of paths, and forgot to get home before dark ... I am a wanderer what can I say? I like twinkling, sparkly things. So where have you

I've been spending the last few days setting up the parallel movement, as well as tending to my regular business(es). It is tempting to double up on content from the parallel movement and Dr. B. However, I do plan to keep these different. There's so many content things I want to write about

It's SO exciting. Happy Blue Day everyone - may you eat some blueberries! Parallel Movement.org The www.parallelmovement.org site is back-up. We're ready to starting roaring into 2022. Please hold tight: newsletters, communications etc are coming. It's free to join so feel free to connect.

I am currently setting up an optimism community. Funnily enough, it's called the 'Optimism Community'. (You can see it here: www.optimismcommunity.com) -------- I am an optimist, by force not by nature. Unlike some people you come across who are bubbly, positive, and full of high spirits,

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." ------- Before the internet, before mobile phones, before anything information

Hi all, I'm back. After a much needed break, I'm back. I know it's been awhile. But here I am again, leaner and meaner than ever! So why the hiatus? The main reason is that I really didn't know what to write. I've had so many questions about what is happening in the world. How on eart

So I've spent the last few days on a much needed holiday. Tropical Far North Queensland (FNQ) or (effenQ) is a lovely place. Beautiful beaches, palm tress, and lovely weather. As part of my role as a Tourist, I decided to join a Great Barrier Reef snorkelling tour. It's really great to splas

Was it Alley MacBeal that introduced the ridiculous young female lawyer? I guess each generation needs to have their own annoying mole. So I've been watching this TV show on Netflix. Let's face it, Netflix is cringe. Not being a particularly TV kind of person, I decided to take up the fre

For some reason, I have that Lou Reed song, 'Perfect Day' in my head. Particularly the line, 'you keep me hanging on'. Over the past few years, I feel like life has been uprooted. I don't know how you feel. But my legs feel like they are dangling over a cliff. And I'm simply holding on to some

I'm a big fan of cults. Not that I would want to join one, or be in the recruitment path; it's just that I admire their mastery of language to manipulate people. I've always been fascinated with how language can be a tool for good or evil. Just the sounds of word as they hit the air can make

Happy ANZAC Day everyone! I am humbly reminded each year that ANZAC Day is my birthday. It sucks getting older, that's for sure. And after the last 2 years I have pretty much zero orientation to where I live anymore. Who loves birthdays? I truly loathe these days, and thank goodness it's only

The last two years have been a slog. And, yet, I feel like it is time to start to the turn the pages over. I have gone through highs and lows over the last six months. It's been a bumpy ride. But now I'm starting to thinking can we find the optimism somewhere? What is optimistic about the

So I'm back again. Over the past few months, I have enjoyed connecting with people again via social media. It seems that Facebook and Instagram were letting me post things, and I started to build up a new audience again. The devil fools with the best made plans. This morning I was hacked on

Whatever Happened to the Age? When I was growing up I had lots of interactions with the Age newspaper. I remember loads about how it looked, felt, and it's function in society. Pre-internet (gasp) there really weren't many places you could source content. You had had the library, you have

If you dropped in from outer space and landed in Victoria, locked up as an alien, you may have the impression that covid is on a rampage. With all the 'deadly Delta' strain, and the plague moving through the landscape like a 'wicked' disease, you'd be hard pressed not to think that every death i

It's hard to imagine that we are in the year 2022, with a virus from 2019. To say that this virus has outstayed its welcome would be an understatement. One question or problem that has been intrigued and thinking a lot recently is the common denominator. To be clearer, what is the common den

Patterns, Perspective and Parallels One part of living I love is to meet people with different ideas. Over the last few days, I’ve connected with a few of my favourite people. They could be described as ‘out of the box’ thinkers. Some mainstream people might call them hippies, or airy-fairy, o

Have you spoken to a millennial lately? Maybe you have hired a handful? Maybe you interact in your daily lives. For me, I try not to - for the most part. Why's that DB? It's because of the over-confidence. It's just too much for me. It's one of the things I really, really, really don't underst