It's a day late - but I did try!

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25 Apr 2009

By creating a healing wave of calm around the planet, World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day paints a vision of possibility for humanity each year. Subtely, quietly, providing a profound example to millions who participate or experience it through the media.

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On 23 April 1984 scientists made a breakthrough in the battle against AIDS. The discovery of a virus believed to cause Aids was hailed as a "monumental breakthrough" in medical research.

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23 Apr 2009

A symbolic date for world literature for on this date and in the same year, 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mej­a Vallejo.

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17 April 2009 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of a police officer after shots were fired from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London. WPC Yvonne Fletcher had been helping control a small demonstration outside the embassy when automatic gunfire came from outside.

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29 Apr 2009

The intention of the Day is to bring all Dance together on this occasion, to celebrate this art form and revel in its universality, to cross all political, cultural and ethnic barriers and bring people together in peace and friendship with a common language - DANCE.

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Been editing my blog for publishing recently, so not much time for owt else; even thoughts or daydreaming it has seemed.

But this morning, while watching some morning TV before starting work, there was a wonderful morning sky outside.

On the day that I'm posting the penultimate Greenygrey North American virtual travel blog on my website I noticed sheer silhouetty grey clouds looking like Valkyrie messengers bringing messages from afar racing across the dark grey thick clouds that coated the morning.

Below that on the horizon there was a wonderful mountain-cloud effect, as the rising sun lit up white clouds above thick grey cloud, making them look like snow-capped peaks.

Later, an oblong of silver appeared in the upper thick grey cloud, looking like a whirlpool to the cosmos, or a white hole variation of a black hole.

So, thanks to the morning sky for some artistic inspiration, and now back to the editing!

One of the joys of being oldish, I find – and there are many – is that you no longer have any desire to be stayed with flagons and comforted with apples (which can be a tedious and cumbersome business at the best of times), but discover instead the true philosophical comfort of clichés, proverbs, trite sayings and all other such hackneyed truisms that would previously have sent you screaming for the nearest psychiatrist. (Or the nearest flagon, whichever happened to be more easily accessible.)

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