Monthly Archives: April 2024
Thyroid wars
Posted on April 28, 2024 Leave a Comment
Are our bodies a microcosm of nature? Let’s see. Evolution, that is natural selection, is happening in every handful of soil you might happen to pick up. Is it happening in our bodies too? Our bodies are full of living creatures, mostly good bacteria beavering away in our guts and other places. Some refer collectively […]
Nature
Posted on April 22, 2024 Leave a Comment
Nature is a great leveller. There was a time when I sought its might and majesty to derive comfort from the relative insignificance of humanity. Nature had that delightful capacity to reduce the most boastful, opinionated and intimidating among us to fragility, vulnerability and helplessness. Nature is still a great leveller, but I don’t see […]
Baring my soul
Posted on April 20, 2024 Leave a Comment
I harbour a self-perception that I have no dark, subterranean forces simmering within me. You know the sort of forces, buried deep most of the time, but, triggered by a provocation, manifesting in a sudden, hot, volcanic eruption or a cold act of revenge. I once mentioned at work that my darkest forces were no […]
Gerry Roberts 
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