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    Dasein

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    I wish I had been there, or you should have been there are often heard about great events. Usually it was a great sporting contest, like England winning the rugby world cup in Sydney with an amazing drop goal in the dying minutes of the game. Yer man Heidegger coined…

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  • DSLR…yes please

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    My new toy arrived a few days ago – a digital SLR camera. It is all singing and dancing with knobs on. I have already registered for the OU short course on digital photography which starts in October. To get me started, or at least give me a bit of…

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  • Reality

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    The old adage ‘reality is only for people who can’t handle drugs’ was very much of its time. Mushrooms were magic and most things were far out. Hallucinogenic drugs had experimental uses for those in the counter culture community. Apart from the addictive nature of drugs like LSD, there was…

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    My son aged three fell in the nettle bedBed seemed a curious name for those green spears,That regiment of spite behind the shed;It was no place for rest. With sobs and tearsThe boy came seeking comfort and I sawWhite blisters beaded on his tender skin.We soothed him till his pain…

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  • The art of slow

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    I stumbled upon a lovely wee book in a cavern of a second hand bookshop called The Philosophy of Slowness…. or something similar. Needless to say, I took my time chewing over the words. Now I can’t find the book on our reorganised shelves, so my need for slowness has…

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  • The Yellow Palm

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    As I made my way down Palestine Street I watched a funeral pass all the women waving lilac stems around a coffin made of glass and the face of the man who lay within who had breathed a poison gas. As I made my way down Palestine Street I heard…

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  • I have been tested

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    The Errigle took my forehead temperature…I passed and was beckoned to a quiet room at the back of the bar. A pint quenched my thirst. The seafood chowder was excellent. I was at Knockbracken Health Centre for my annual diabetic eye screening. I passed. They couldn’t tell me, but Specsavers…

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  • Peace of Mind

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    Cycling really took off this last year and people are spending hefty sums of money on bikes. My own bike is a Boardman hybrid ebike and is the most expensive bike I’ve ever bought. Locks are essential and U locks are the hardest to cut through. Unfortunately, a U lock…

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    Macular Degeneration

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    Medical terminology can be a bit frightening. Morbidly obese, macular degeneration and terminally facetious are just two medical descriptions that apply to myself. You would think that I might respond with a concerted effort to remedy the situation. The macular degeneration is just a natural consequence of ageing with a…

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  • Albert Camus

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    I first read Monsieur Camus when I was 15 Possibly a bit young for Camus’ worldview, but I copied my older brother’s choice of paperback literature unashamedly. Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Colin Wilson et al played a part in my understanding of the world outside a rural English…

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