My name is Endymion. I am a lowly Athenian shepherd. Good looking perhaps but everybody’s mug. I have always longed for a family but my wage is low and I cannot afford to commit. Up in the heavens Selene, the Goddess of the Moon, is insistent on having a […]
Love
Old Age
It is now almost eight weeks since I plighted my troth, eight weeks since I cut the nail and a piece of finger off my left index digit. Although the arrangement I had with my Selene I thought could get no better both finger and arrangement have improved considerably. First […]
What Is It?
Good morning and hello again. It is nearly seven weeks since I last posted. All of it taken up with preparation, actuality and recovery from my marriage to my beautiful Selene on 13th August 2021. Some people might think in this modern age how stupid we were whereas others might […]
Happiness in Spite.
It is 5.00am on 30th April 2021 and I am happy. I have just come out of my period of mourning for poor old Phil, a man who seemed to have enjoyed life no matter what trials and tribulations were thrown at him from a very early age, with his […]
The Here And Now.
I live on a small, some might say exclusive estate of 10 houses in a small town in the west of Ireland, situated on the banks of a beautiful and sometimes swift flowing river that eventually finds it way to the heart beat of Ireland, the River Shannon. I have […]
The Idiocy That Is Covid.
I have loved three women in my life, first my mother who I lived with for 21 years and who cherished my children until her untimely death in 1988. She never had a penny she could call her own yet she taught me to think rich. I regret that due […]
A Way Through The Morass.
Let us start off with the premise that man needs woman and vice versa although it is not in this instance an adverb I would choose to dwell on. This need is there in all forms of natural existence. Let us also presume that both sides of this need is […]