This poem describes a person facing his life head on, needing answers as to what is to come. Life changes that are unwanted, but learning to talk about things, coming around a little at a time to acceptance.

Reality is Familiar.

Personal account of life, love, and lessons in progress.

A young boy dreams of being a great scientist. Life doesn’t always turn out the way we expect.

Parts of a novel combining mythology and Human history over a period of six days, which leads to the ultimate confrontation between Nature and mankind on the seventh day.

Changing your life is about changing the self, not the country you live in. Though I believed the latter when I discovered the Alentejo, a remote region in the heart of Portugal. Filled with history and beauty, it also harboured the mostly insane. Hans had once been a U-Boat Captain. His moustache could tango, or do the salsa. It all depended upon his mood. Having lived in Portugal for many years, he was loved and hated by many. His farm, the Quinta do California stood at the crossroads of that almost forgotten world. My love for Celia had led me there. As for the rest, it just happened.

Sometimes we have to do without knowing why.

A womans perspective on what love feels like and can put you through. What love can make you feel or make you think you feel. Love or the thought of it can make you think or see things incorrectly.

Poem.

Rambling mind, late at night, thoughts go to regions, regions of light. A little piece on going alone, but never apart, breaking this heart made of stone.