Excerpts from a Prolific Thinker

  One of the first concept children learn from a very young age is that of the consequences of actions, or lack thereof. ‘If you touch the socket, you will get electroshocked’, if you walk barefoot, you will wound your feet’, ‘if you eat too many candies, you’ll get cavities’. An action, or more precisely ‘your’ action, will bring about a reaction, presented as direct, unequivocal, and sometimes immediate. The principle of education is therefore to reinforce this messaging by identifying in every woe that occur to their children as a direct consequence of an action they posed, preferably one which was earlier banned. ‘You see, I told you not to eat this much cake, now your tummy hurts’, ‘sorry you fell on the football pitch, but I told you not to run this mindlessly’. And the pattern can go as far as ‘I told you not to marry her/him, see how you are struggling now’…as an extreme example of the series. It sounds very basic and infantilizing for anyone older than 15 years old...

Too shallow to see... Too insignificant to decipher... Too uninteresting to mention... Maybe just a shadow of something that  never was A remnant of the vapour of something that almost was Or was it? Such as he was looking for the third time to see The birth of a cloud above the sea I could look ten times and say All there is to see is not much per se A limelight maybe could point out To the outspring of something that nobody expected  To something that everybody doubted To be called anything else than a bout A spark, a tin, a doubt Maybe something or maybe not One thing is certain  It would always be more than nil Because nature does not condone void Nor does it sustain veil As a matter of fact, When nature sees a breath fighting for its growth and survival Striving to become more than ephemere Or elevating itself above mere essence Nutrients, light and water will altogether conspire Hold, uphold and catalyze what never was To be more than a shallow cause A glorious cons...