The Depth of Friendship.

The depth of friendship can only be tested with time. Friends of yesteryear may wander and fade and even disappear. The fickle group and the trendy clique may provide comfort and a harbouring of emotion but as they flicker the true friend rumbles on, somewhere, like a freight train. The warm embrace of a friend overwhelms the senses and spins you. The passage of time has shrunk like a rubber band. Friendship is for always. When it awakens from its absence it is as fresh as it was new over thirty years ago. Happy Twenty Ten!

Slow it down - We're halfway there.

SLOW IT DOWN ...... WE ARE HALFWAY THERE!! Assuming that I live to be 100 years old, then I am halfway there (almost). Halfway to what? Death? The End? The Beginning? Who the hell knows? Life - should we choose to call it that - is a rush. A rush as in hurry up, do it now, and multi-task. Also, a rush as in WOW - this makes my head spin. It is New Years Eve 2009. 2010 will soon be upon us. My attempts to slow things down have only shortened the time it takes to travel between events. My hurried days are behind me. From now on it is going to be slow slow slow. My tilt of alcohol is now displaced by super-human effort to slow the clock down. As you tip your drinks to the new year I will be "V-shaped" with my back on the hour hand and my feet on the minute hand - just slowing it down. As I tune myself into the deeper consciousness of my second half - I welcome your thoughts. Tell me how you - slow it down.