This will hurt me...

By any other name. St George's Terrace, Battery Point. December 2012. Have a love poem. I hope that you have a love to go with it. i carry your heart , EE Cummings i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

We managed to make it out of the bush without eating the weakest. This time...

I've seen the light. My bedroom, Geilston Bay. December 2012. Not Me - A German Childhood by Joachim Fest. Evocative family history that spans the rise an fall of the Nazis. It explores how one family remained intent on preserving life from the moral cancer of Nazism. B- . The Thin Man , Dashiell Hammett. A hard-boiled whodunnit featurinf a rough'n'tough detective, wealthy socialites, hard dinking coppers 'n crims, dodgy lawyers, lippy dames and greasy stoolies. Tremendous! B+ .

Just to continue on the hermit crab theme for one more post...

Look what we found. Opossum Bay Beach, Opossum Bay. December 2012. Theme Thursday again and I'm stuck for what kind of RIBBONS to wear in my hair. Complicating this is the fact that I've had my hair cut quite short, which limits the size, scope and number of RIBBONS that will fit. I could staple them on (or use nails), but I'm reticent to do that. Thus I'm stuck with choosing one. Initially I thought that I could happily support the Levellers' emphasis on the expansion of sovereign rights during the English Civil War, but did not want any Canadian readers to think that I was declaring my unequivocal support for pornography. Nor do I have an express desire to support the troops in Pakistan or feel any particular solidarity with Chechnya (good luck to 'em though). I love blue, but really, blue ribbons are so passée and I couldn't think of a greater insult that have someone think that I supported either the British Tory party nor Ukranian President ...

Pine cones as hand grenades?

Cumulus cloud. As seen from Clifton Beach. December 2012. Wordless Wednesday.

Etiamsi omnes, ego non!

Ezra's legs. Bellerive Bluff, Bellerive. November 2012. Sunday Stealing: Have You’s and What If’s! 1. Have you anything to confess today? Not really. Perhaps I could admit to doing the vast bulk of my Christmas shopping online. 2. Have you ever broken a law? If so, what was it? Well, I expect that most people do more than they care to admit, be it in relation to road rules, use of varied substances, copyright infringement, unregulated gambling, taxation or some form of sexual practices. I'm surprisingly law-abiding myself. 3. Have you ever committed an act of betrayal against a friend or family member? Betrayal . That’s a bit dramatic. I don’t think so. I always try to conduct myself openly and honestly, so if they’ve ever felt ‘betrayed’ that would more be about them than I. 4. Has someone else done something that, to this day, makes you cringe when you think about them committing the act? This happens all the time. I find a lot of the time I’m scratching my hea...

Trust Henry to back the gorilla over the plumber in the ménage à trois conflit with a princess...

Grey day. Princes Street, Sandy Bay. December 2012. As you know, the Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (and RSS feeds.) The following are some things that I've had a look at in the last week. I call this: a Compendium of Click-throughs for Monday Morning... Headline of the year candidate: Woman arrested after trying to kill her boyfriend with her large breasts . National Geographic Photo Contest 2012. Antony Beevor explores both the past and future of Europe with the question: will a continent turn its back on democracy? Some interesting things happening in the UK: Google, Amazon, Starbucks: The rise of 'tax shaming'. How the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and the Israeli right became co-dependents in an abusive relationship... Truth? HAH! The year in truth. “Homicide Victims Rarely Talk to Police,” and Other Horrible Headlines...

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Bees returning home. The Domain, Hobart. December 2012. Sunday Top Five and today I'm listing Five Sure Fire Ways That Constantly Mess Up People's Ways Of Thinking Or Planning! Only taking responsibility for positive outcomes. Rebellion for the sake of proving personal freedom. Confirmation bias, or, ignoring information that does not support a belief. Passing a broad judgement from an isolated incident. Sunk cost fallacy, or, trying to diminish losses by continuing to pursue previous failures.