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Category Archives: big questions
After the end…
One in two of us will be affected by dementia in our lifetime. Families living with the condition are often left feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and alone. With your support, together we can provide vital specialist dementia nursing services, so more families can access our life-changing support and live as well as possible, for as long as possible. Please donate today and help ensure no one faces dementia alone. Continue reading
Posted in amreading, big questions, books, dystopia, fantasy, Harvey Duckman, writes, writing
Tagged amreading, books, fiction, life, poetry, reads, sciencefiction, writing
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Patronising Miss Law
Occasionally, I wonder if regular readers of these witterings wonder if I could just once in a while stay on topic… What when it comes down to it is this blog for. Oh sure I talk about writing a lot, … Continue reading
Important Facts Friday
Once in a while we need to take a few moments to examine life seriously and spend some time contemplating the great questions about it, the universe and , well stuff… This may not be one of those times… Important … Continue reading
Masks
This is a post about masks derived from an old posts about masks from 2017. In 2017 I was still writing the first Hannibal Smyth novel, COVID was yet to be a thing and I was not the same person … Continue reading
Posted in big questions, depression, opinion
Tagged depression, mentalhealth, opinion, writerslife
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Are you ready for the apocalypse? by Liz Tuckwell
Introduction by Mark : Elizabeth Tuckwell is a fellow Harvey Duckman writer and the aunt of an old friend of mine. These two things are not connected and we were unaware of the second connection till the old friend read … Continue reading
Posted in amreading, amwriting, big questions, Harvey Duckman, indie writers, indieoctober, indiewriter, opinion, reads
Tagged amreading, amreadinghorror, enviroment, reads, sciencefiction, writers, writerslife
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Pagan feasting
For want of a better definition I am a Quantum Pagan. Which is to say I have a workaday understanding of Quantum physics, and I believe both science and pagan spirituality to be in a quest for answers and the … Continue reading
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Tagged amreading, pagan, quantum pagan, reads, writerslife, writing
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Whispered Wisdom’s of the Wise
According to Pliny the Elder, ‘The only certainty is that nothing is certain’ I’m not sure about that… But it is a philosophical quote of which I am somewhat fond. Here then are some more. Life is really simple, but … Continue reading
Posted in amreading, big questions, pointless things of wonderfulness, quotes, writing
Tagged amreading, philosophy, quotes, reads
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It…
It watches…
It would be wrong to say it is waiting.
Waiting would imply it was waiting for something. That it desired something. Desire is an emotion, want is an emotion. Emotions are not something it experiences. To have emotions requires a frame of reference for emotion is a reaction.
It does not react.
It does not desire.
It does not want… Continue reading
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Book reviews beyond the paradigm
What it it was easy to change our lives? What if happiness wasn’t an impossible dream to chase after? What if we could have nice things?
or something like that Continue reading
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The Rabbit Hole
So I am down the rabbit hole, admit The Matter of France, Italian Epic Poems, adrift in the pedalo of an idea, that may become a thing… Continue reading
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