Tag: age

• Twelfth Night, or What You Will…

  So the frivolities are over, the obligations fulfilled, the promises made.  The bride and bridegroom of the old year have been waved away, leaving  the land to rest and await Spring’s wakening.  The coloured lights, the glitter’s memory, the gleam of hope must warm us for a while as we prepare against Nature’s frozen sleep. […]

  frederick anderson

  January 5, 2016

  Social Comment, Uncategorized

  age, Change, Climate, flood, natural disaster, New Records, New Year, population, Records, Resolution, sleep, storm, warning, winter

• A Word in Passing

  There are two places in my world where I would wish to be. The first is a seashore, a mile of firm wet sand beneath my feet, a spray-loaded westerly gale in my face, and white-caps marching in military file upon the rocks. To stand before the might of nature and feel her snatching at […]

  frederick anderson

  June 7, 2015

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  adult, age, animals, church, control, cruelty, death, ending, Euthanasia, passing, philosophy, piety, religion

• Into the Sunset

  As months go, September went.  And October came – momentously.  Two things, two life-altering things, have happened in October. Firstly, and quite devastatingly, I finally lost sight of my feet.  Let me explain this.  When you become older in a comfortably furnished sort of way as have I, you can no longer actually reach your […]

  frederick anderson

  October 17, 2014

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  age, death, deterioration, disability, Frederick Anderson, humor, mobility, obesity, Pension, relationships, retirement, tolerance