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Act, Love, Walk
Yesterday… …Seeing Raheem Stirling attending court. He’s played football for top British clubs, he’s played for England eighty-two times, in 2021 he received an MBE for services to racial equality in sport. In May thirty-one-year-old Sterling crashed his Lamborghini. Yesterday he was pleading guilty to dangerous driving before, possessing nitrous oxide for wrongful inhalation, and…
The Best Laid Plans…
The Scottish poet Robbie Burns wrote the famous words (in translation): The best laid plans of Mice and Menoft go awry,And leave us nought but grief and pain,For promised joy! They’re part of an eight-verse poem ‘To a Mouse’. Farmer Robbie Burns, accidentally ploughed through poor “Mousie’s” nest in a field. The poem is an…
Marching out of Step
Yesterday… …Reading Ken Kesey’s ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’. The rebellious Randle McMurphy enters a psychiatric hospital where each patient is expected to conform. A staff member says of McMurphy, ‘He who marches out of step hears another drum’. Apparently, the original Henry Thoreau nineteenth century quote reads: ‘If a man does not keep…
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