For 60years. I got paid for the privilege of expressing myself by putting words on paper then digital media.

Then I got ill. I lost the urge to do anything but recover my health. Much to my surprise, my health recovered and so did my urge to express myself.

A life of PolymyalgiaRheumatica, steroids and paracetamol is what happens when your immune system forgets what its purpose is; sort of like some politicians. I still use the semi;colon.

Images of the past are artefacts of a culture that venerated different qualities of the human character and yet there are those among us who insist that the fundamentals of what makes us human have remained unchanged over all millennia.

Depression is not new to humanity. What is new is the sense that depression is medical and not an annate characteristic of human awareness.

Early Saturday morning waiting for something to happen but have to shit, shave and change my colostomy bag first.

Ask for staples next time.

Back at you.