Tag Archives: food
A global leaky bucket
Global weather extremes will force people to hard choices. I write this in despair, it is snowing again here in Colchester UK. I admit envy for those of you who live in California or Hong Kong area, I see your photographs where the seasons always seem to be warm and sunny. The northern Jet Stream …
The growing threat of Monsanto
In my opinion Monsanto is a serious threat to humanity and the environment. One word that I keep hearing about with growing alarm is Monsanto. People say that climate change, North Korea or al-Qaeda is a great threat to humanity, but few seem to associate a corporate agricultural giant as a threat. Currently a small …
The illusion of control
Nature presents alternatives to the human obsession of control. Last night I am in bed floating on an increasingly stormy threatening ocean, afraid I would fall into the dark cold waters to my doom. It was a dream, the bed my sense of security, the ocean the chaotic universe. To my relief my dream bed …
The prize goes to the bold and inventive
Be bold and inventive to succeed in life. Winter struck with a vengeance in Britain with my town of Colchester buried in snow and freezing temperatures. It is at this time I think of the wildlife, so I took time out to take food out to the swans in Colchester. I have a process where …
Waste nothing
Nature and our ancestors wasted nothing, we should do the same. Walking near the wild wood of Highwoods in Colchester a hawk flew out in front of me carrying a bird it had caught. The hawk was a reminder of the raw quality of nature that is life and death; the death of a bird …
Positive thinking opens doors
Reality is what we make it. Since New Years Day I have found £2.59 on the ground as I walk around the streets of my home town of Colchester. Apparently Colchester people are getting careless and dropping their money. Without any effort of looking I observe a lost coin upon the ground as I walk …
