Marta

Marta was raised in Poland and fell in love with Jez her English husband when he wooed and wed her in Poland. Yesterday she arrived at the sanctuary where your old blogger has retreated in search of downstairs toilet facilities in order to ameliorate the breathlessness caused by the blood clots.

Now Marta has been a resister of tyranny for quite a while, since the Poles have seen tyranny before in recent history when the Nazis invaded Poland and occupied it as the 3rd Reich sought to create an Empire, swallowing other nations in their plan to dominate the world

As a devoutly Catholic country Poland, a next door neighbour, was an early pawn on the chess board, as the National Socialists mopped up the board piece by piece, neighbour by neighbour, with France an early target. The British Empire leaders decided to put their money on France, despite pressure from Nazi sympathisers in Britain including the heir to the throne and his Nazi loving wife, not to mention Oswald Mosley.

Meanwhile, Marta's influence crosses the time barrier from yesterday Wednesday 16.03.2022 to Thursday 17.03.2022 when Gillian, the Angel of Stanhope arrives for afternoon tea and scones plus Philosopy. Naturally dear Marta is referenced since her influence is inspirational, not least after Netflix last night and the true story of the young mystic and martyr in Poland post-war as the Polish Pontiff arrives and upsets the Communists and backs Solidarity who are in the lead as the Soviet Empire starts to crumble away and Gorbachev announces Glasnost.

That's all history now of course and the Anglo-American Empire with NATO in support crumbles in turn and Russia returns to power, plus China who between them form a formidable alliance based on mineral wealth.

My word, politics eh? Let's try a more peaceful topic next shall we?

Suggestions on comments please dear blog readers!

Good night . ..

Dealing with Change

Today's topic, dealing with change, examines once more how older people choose to adapt to the inevitable changes as we try to resist and insist all is well when it patently is not! Now this is tricky dear readers of Wear & Dao, since optimism is optimal but delusion deluded, but there you go, what can you do except smile.

Strategies are required to handle the problems thrown up by the aging population and acceptance the key. Another strategy is to have good friends, which sounds tricky but is not. Put simply kindnesss begets kindness and misery more misery so there's your choice.

The evening time here watching the hilarious Big Bang Theory with the friend from the village, retired nurse and currently  carer, sees a feeling of melancholy descend which is processed without the now repetitive and noisy film on, revealing the reasons as  they are discussed at length and depth. It appears the issue is a cumulative despair not unusual in the hours before the new day seeing optimism return and  everything possible, even coping with the breathlessness.

Over time the question arises dear readers of belief in miracles, which indeed your optimistic blogger embraces. Likewise the sometime Roman Catholic!

So, Tuesday 15.03.2022 and a time for miracles dear readers !
See you all tomorrow for further miraculous events.

Future Planning

On we  go with Philosophy dear friends of wisdom.Today's  theme is Future Planning so let's examine that shall we, in the context of futures facing old Philosophers. Clearly health plays a part, and illness too. Longevity is never fully predictable at any age, so it's best to prepare for the inevitable  and live cheerfully each day.

Now some say 71 is plenty old enough for three score years and ten, whilst others remain sprightly much older. That's how it is you see dear readers,  existential and environmental causes vie with genetics as if it must be one thing or the other.Clearly that is simplistic and cause and effect complex.

Nevertheless, dear reader, Life goes on until breathing creases, some say, whilst others find comfort in ongoing consciousness.

Meanwhile over on Netflix more spiritual messages emerge as well as amusement with films like Young Sheldon and Big Bang Theory plus a mysterious conspiracy by virtual worlds to appear to limit ones exposure to favour the beautiful new world our hearts know is possible!

Is it credible or plausible to take this seriously? Well dear credulous reader, what do you think and why? That's dialogue by the way, and advanced. Bringing  us to today's guests, Peter and Bill the Philosophers who enjoy a decent dialogue on a Sunday. Wise men for sure!

So, there you have it on Sunday March 13.. 2022 .

More blogs tomorrow maybe, but for now goodnight and sweet dreaming friends.

Living and Dying Alone

A friend of the retired nurse tells of her dermination to die soon, having accepted the inevitable and having also received regular visits from her dead husband. This phenomenon is not as rare as one might think if a rational mind was in charge, but it's surely not in fact since the Right Hemisphere of the brain sees the world as whole while the Left Hemisphere sees details as shown by Iain McGiilchrist in his books, including The Master and His Emissary and others.

So, here we go again dear readers. More Philosophy to explore Life and its meanings on Friday the 11th of March, 2022 . Ancient Greeks and Romans are revered by many Philosophers in the west, whilst in the east it's Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism and so on. So where shall find contemporary Philosophers bridging the gaps?

Living and Dying Alone is today's theme and it surely applies at the ripe old age of 71! The fear of such a dire fate is unthinkable dear readers., please don't entertain it for a minute.

That's it for today folks . Hopefully we'll meet again tomorrow.

Death and Dying

Believe it or believe it not, human bodies have a habit of passing through stages from emerging from the womb, learning, maturing, breeding perhaps, then trainng the next generation and so on. This description of Shakespeare, that all the world's a stage literally employs language to sum the situation up as elegantly as anyone.

The role of language in its various forms to explain what on Earth is going on is a habit of human beings, whilst other species don't worry about explanations but just crack on with living and dying as if it was normal. To compound the question the humans then feel the need to explain other planets and how all that works, a fascinating subject for some of us.

Meanwhile, returning to the question of various languages, these include music, mathematics, and silence plus the way languages foreign to us are employed to try to explain what's going on.

Jude Currivan has a theory explaining how all is information in 2 Dimensions,  4th is space time, 5th the void not empty but full of potential,awaiting human consciousness.

Meanwhile, the previous addition from the nurse friend from the village has disappeared which is weird! Briefly she said her view was the same except for the Garden Terrace part, as new options arise of which there are many,  including sharing an accessible bungalow, which makes sense to both.

That's plenty of options for now dear readers, so we bid you goodnight!

The Tablet Returns!

Well well dear readers of Wear and Dao, apologies for the brief interlude in service. The Tablet on which this stuff is written with one finger was off duty for repairs to the screen which was smashed. It's hardly a disaster of course, though one or two regular readers seem to find it amusing to read, and the writer finds it amusing to write it since he enjoys the composing of it.

So, the process pleases a few which is well worth the effort after all's said and done don't you agree?  Famous writers of Philosophy have a wide influence and we all need to start somewhere. Take for example Margaret Attwood, author of many fine books and a mystic too. The book in question is Alias Grace , a dark tale of exploitation of women and the murder of the culpable men who frankly had it coming.

The book was well reviewed when published and thanks to Netflix was recently reviewed there too.

Moving swiftly on dear blog readers, we return to the medical issues causing the current crisis. You may recall the blood clot diagnosis plus pulmonary fibrosis and briefly pneumonia,  all somewhat dangerous to the health of the blogger who started walking the pilgrim ways and writing Wear and Dao 7 years ago fit and healthy and is now reduced to breathlessness !

To bring you up to date folks, a bungalow is next on the list. One happens to be vacant in Stanhope and the blogger's name is in the queue. Fingers crossed it happens!

There you go friends, you're up to date now.

See you in the next edition ... goodbye!

03.03.22 Prevarication!

Well well dear blog readers and lovers of Philosophy, you see the title of today's offering? An analysis of the purpose of this bloody blog business with the friend from the village reveals at least three scenarios. Firstly, to remind the old blogger of who he is and why. Secondly as a personal travelogue. Then there's the question of dementia as an aide memoire,to remind the demented one who he was before he lost his mind

Is that clear enough dear reader? And the title of the blog today, Prevarication? What on Earh is that all about?By definition it means to be evasiive. But to whom and why is unclear, though the blogger has no wish to offend the dear friend from the village and retired nurse  of course!

Well, let's leave it at that shall we? And move on to Netflix.

Now Netlix, for those who don't know it is rather addictive. And this, by the way may be construed as Prevarication! But really it is  not.

What's on tonight you may ask? Well let's see later after supper at six shall we?

Meanwhile feel free to guess dear reader.

That's it for now. Farewell!