Debating topics like a pair of unresolved owls

Newtown, Sydney

To the right two old men debating topics like a pair of unresolved owls; to the left a woman breastfeeding providence into her newborn; a younger man with fingers on his chin spotting the menu; outside an Ivorian rapper with long braided hair improvising; pockets of young students heading off to school; a lone crested pigeon swooping across the road; a group of elderly Greeks dressed in black heading back from church; Odysseus lived in Ithaka; gods and demigods; ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust’; functionalist; structuralist; formalist; tears; water; and rips; the metaphor is everywhere; fall; ball; where are you Paul; I could not sleep last night the black dog has been back; “The different faces of depression” (Psychology Today); Erik Erikson (1902-1994); Leon Festinger (1919-1989); Albert Bandura (1925); there was hurting in places I must not yet discover; this was the year of my preparation; the gall bladder gone; “lucky to be alive”, he said; “luck’s got nothing to do with it”, I tell him; surgery kheirourgia; from Ancient Greek; “hand and work”; we mourn, yet we mourn not without hope; “Tomorrow will be beautiful, For tomorrow comes out of the lake” (Emanuel Carnevali); deep gorges and waterfalls; Weeping Wall, Hawaii; Ulysses butterfly;  electric blue hue; tropical rainforest; Father Nektarios is an angelic being; celebrating the great day of the Archangels; “O ArchangeI Michael whose countenance is like lightning”; I lit candles with the secret prayer that I not yet be consumed; the light which sifts the wheat from the chaff finds a way to pass through the impenetrable night; “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (Jn. 1:5); illumination; luminescence; set alight; I am opposite the Reno Café; yet again reincarnated from its old bones; this time to a tidy Vietnamese vegan; where are you Father; behind me, my old school on King Street, it was only yesterday; Chronos; Aion; Harvesting Scythe; “If I could save time in a bottle” (Jim Croce); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1rMeYnOmM; I am enjoying my house muesli with roasted plums and coconut yogurt; George is happy at his new school; he has given up football; okay, it remains to be seen; general election on the horizon in the United Kingdom; protests continuing in Iraq demanding an end to government corruption; the department of homeland security plans to have biometric data on hundreds of millions of people by 2022; the two old men next to me reminiscing on the celebrations of their 21st birthdays; the one closest to me was with his bride to be, so he says; the other was with work mates and the stolen bottles of champagne; Dom Perignon 1996; Rose Gold; Methuselah; my 21st was down at the Rocks; our lives have changed; we have changed; Oh Lord! If only You gave us a second chance at this; where has the time gone; I remember Tony S. telling me to “hurry it up”; I remember him saying I looked like chiselled marble; if only he knew the prophecy he was pronouncing; “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens” (Eccles. 3:1); the Wright brothers; Yuri Gagarin; Neil Armstrong; I want to go home to sleep; I didn’t take my tablets; anyhow, they get lost upstream; why does this make me think on AI and such; you get the picture now; don’t you?; “By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it” (Eliezer Yudkowsky); how many friends do you have; do they read your poetry; do they dare penetrate into the spaces behind your eyes; I remember the blind man with a cane outside Newtown railway station; my own eyes flood with tears; he is wearing a pair of mismatched socks; oculus; lumen; who loves you, brother; Fred Hollows (1929-1993); Pavlos  Sidiropoulos (1948-1990); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUFfsRe8myA; another gem from the two old friends; “imagine just looking at the world and refusing to categorize it”; “yeah, from the point of view of being up in aeroplane”; Plato (b. 429 BC); Immanuel Kant (1724-1804); Karl Marx (1818-1883); I see colours when I close my eyes; long rivers of colours; blue-violet, yellow-orange, blue-green; Chris Rea; rock and blues; The Blue Cafe; Pies; Breakfast; Lunch; Refill not Landfill; Served with Bourke Street Bakery Sourdough; time to go to my other place for a cup of green tea; Rui’s café bar on Station Street; the man with the neat white ponytail introduced me to Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935); the young boy offering his Mother bread with spittle; a woman in a black and white print asking for her espresso;  a group of four friends huddled next to the door like a scrum; Myra Hess; Martha Argerich; Joanna MacGregor; Hortus deliciarum; Herrad of Landsberg (1130-1195); “music from the garden”; I discovered things I had buried away too deeply; how much I love my wife; that my children are my witness to the mystery of creation; carbon-based structures;  life-bearing molecules; pyrene; major breakthrough in the deadly vaping epidemic; Anonymous Trump Insider’s ‘Warning’; Flood, fire and plague: Climate change blamed for disasters; the SS Ourang Medan; shipwrecks and ghost ships; dots and dashes; today I left the liturgy not long after I said my prayers; I was terrified at what He has called me to become; I never wanted it; and even now my struggle against this little apocalypse is not rescinding; then the beast [the beast which you too carry but refuse to see] came hard at me; Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936); the Generation of ’27; “As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”; honey bee; bumblebee; carpenter bee; Katina is in her element at ASU; Eleni wants to dance, she says; Jeremy is surprising us all with his skills in mathematics; they will be here in four weeks and four days; Deo volente; Dei gratia rex; Dominus illuminatio mea; distance can have unexpected results on perspective; from medieval Latin science of optics; diffraction grating; focal length; gamma ray; “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work” (2 Thess. 2:7); Antichrist, Robert Bellarmine; The Deeds of Antichrist, Orvieto Cathedral, Italy, 1517; end on a more positive note, dear Michael; all will be well; day by day; thank you Mr Brahms; “agreement or concord of sound”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGRqIGOAPcE