Well, at least thats how it feels much of the time. I do have visitors
to this page, not many but a few drop in from time to time and I
feel I should have something to say to them but as I don't know who
they are I am at a disadvantage. After all, I don't want to alienate
those few folks who actually read this. And what indeed am I to
write?. Should I write about my life as a 'poor' older guy living in
this city of Dublin and would it be of interest to my readers?. It
seems odd to decribe oneself as poor. I don't think of myself in that
way but the reality is that by the normal standards of life here that is
is exactley what I am. Just today on the tv here it said that Ireland is
now the second richest country in the world when it comes to
personal wealth and thats easy to belive if you were to live here for
any period of time. What they don't shout about is the fact that if
you get sick here you might just find yourself lying on a trolly in the
public area of some hospital for a week or more before you get any
treatment. But then again most people just don't seem to care.
But poverty is boring as well as being a real downer. So maby I had
better start writing about the good things. I'm going to think hard
on this as I'm sure there are lots of things that will uplift my readers
if only I could think of them. And of course as my mother used to
say, "there is always someone worse off", which is true but does
not really help. Ah well, as Leonard Cohen says....
"let sing another songs boys
this one's old and bitter"
A great man is Leonard. A philosopher and a poet. A scholar and
a gentleman. Where would all the miserable people be without him?.
"and there are no chocolates in the boxes anymore
and there are no diamons in the mine"
You never said a truer word Lenny.