Author: Christopher-Dorset

I am content. The professor I chose for my historiography class has approved my choice of a research topic with no reservations or criticism: the formation of the Australian sense of self in the period 1890-1915.

Cheer up, Bearsy!

“If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, ‘Somewhere, my flower is there…’ But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened… And you think that is not important!”

“The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her… I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her…”

There were probably many, many times this year when –

I may have…
Disturbed You,
Troubled You,
Pestered You,
Irritated You,
Bugged You,
Or got on your Nerves!!

So today, I just wanted to tell you –

Suck it up, Cupcake!!
Because there
ARE NO CHANGES
Planned for 2011!!

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken

“Life is a performance, I thought. Perhaps the word “illusion” would have meant more or less the same thing, but to me “performance” seemed closed to the truth. Standing there in the midst of the crowd that evening, I felt this realisation swirl dizzily through my body in a dazzling splendour of light, if only for an instant. Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we’ve ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves”.

— 吉本ばなな

Recent reports indicate that the US government is preparing to put Julian Assange on trial in the US on espionage charges. Recently leaked photos have shown the delicate care with which the US government is proceeding.