LIFE

Shedding.

I have spent the last two years, if not the whole of my life, trying to make friends, and desperately chasing those I think I have. But recently I’ve been beginning to think that a lot of my difficulty is in expectation or hope. In the gap between my perceived reality and my actual reality.ContinueContinue reading “Shedding.”

No title

I delayed posting this as I searched for a title. I looked everywhere, but found none, and today is as good a day as any. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ What matters an anniversary when you’re dead?When time has ceased to govern,And become only another directionOf places you will not visit. The earth traveled around the sun,But you wereContinueContinue reading “No title”

December 23,

Or was it January 24? ——— You came to see me When I needed you But you brought with you – Your needs. ——— Eighteen months later My head finally cools. ——— You were ahead of me. I want to be needed But I didn’t serve your need, I drove you away ———- And youContinueContinue reading “December 23,”

Reciprocity

Tell me….. If you don’t need me, What help are you To me? ——- If you have no use for me, I have no use for you. Tit For tatt. ——- It is childish., I will cut off my nose. Does it matter? Have you need of it? ——— I think what I’m saying is,ContinueContinue reading “Reciprocity”

Planning for the future.

Or “Palliating the soul” Yesterday I quit all the dating apps that have been distracting me, and giving little promise and even less substance over the last year. I won’t be experimenting with speed dating and I have concluded confidently, that the activities my friends encourage me to participate in will not deliver me theContinueContinue reading “Planning for the future.”

George

George thought about his own times up in Lochaber, and around Glen Affric, and further south in Knoydart; he thought about the few people who lived there, and the people he’d met, in the bothies, or on the road, almost never on the hill, for the hills were big, and the paths ill defined soContinueContinue reading “George”

Dear George,

My name is Lora and I seen this coming. You found me in the Cafe in the train station, I been staying up Nevis with some friends, but they sickened and went home, and I not known what I do. I thinking you have a nice face, and you talking about all those walks, andContinueContinue reading “Dear George,”

The man who went to a zoom meeting

He had resisted this for a long time, this idea of connecting through a telly screen with a keyboard attached. One by one he had watched his neighbours succumb, he’d seen his boss who was perfectly capable of finding his way to his own garden gate, after only a few years of using satellite navigation,ContinueContinue reading “The man who went to a zoom meeting”

Christmas and the NHS

Salbutomol 100mcg 2x daily if required Beclamethazone 200mcg 1x daily, Calcium and Vitamin d3 600mg & 400IU, (10mcg) x2 twice daily. Alendronic Acid 70mg x1 once weekly. Folic acid 5mg once daily. Methotrexate 20mg injected once weekly, skip folic acid on this day. Tacrolimus 0.1% ointment once daily applied externally to affected areas as required.ContinueContinue reading “Christmas and the NHS”