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2025, THOU SHALT NOT VEX ME

2025, THOU SHALT NOT VEX ME

It’s trou­bling, but not unrea­son­able to fear that 2025 may turn out to be as vex­ing­ly grim as the year we’ve just slogged through. My plan for off­set­ting  the depres­sion that for­bodes, is to harken the beau­ty I saw and pho­tographed in 2024, and find rays of humour in things that nor­mal­ly dri­ve me to out­bursts of pro­fane protest.Read the rest

RESOLUTIONS FOR A RESPITE

RESOLUTIONS FOR A RESPITE

It is an irrefutable fact of life and human nature that New Year’s res­o­lu­tions for self-improve­ment on a grand scale are “made to be bro­ken”. Ergo, instead of per­pet­u­at­ing my annu­al fail­ures, this year I’m sim­ply resolv­ing not to con­cern myself with vex­a­tions over which I have no con­trol, will nev­er under­stand and don’t need to give a tinker’s dam (or damn) about anyway.Read the rest