Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. - Jack Kerouac

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do