life lessons that are priceless – damn straight!

"You must believe in God, my dear, whatever the clergymen say."

Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford

life in the solar system – a mnemonic

Mercury’s right up in my face

Venus is a hellish place

Earth has caught the human race

Mars is just a basket case

Jupiter’s girth is a disgace

Saturn twirls with dancer’s grace

Uranus is rather base

Neptune plods at wretched pace

Pluto is now lost in space

in Sunspots, Simon Barraclough

musical life – the soundtrack of tranquility

Love, I get so lost, sometimes

Days pass, and this emptiness fills my heart

When I want to run away

I drive off in my car

But whichever way I go

I come back to the place you are

All my instincts, they return

And the grand facade, so soon will burn

Without a noise, without my pride

I reach out from the inside

In your eyes

The light, the heat

In your eyes

I am complete

In your eyes

I see the doorway

In your eyes

to a thousand churches 
In your eyes
The resolution

In your eyes

of all the fruitless searches 

In your eyes

I see the light and the heat

Oh, I want to be that complete

I want to touch the light

The heat I see in your eyes

Love, I don't like to see so much pain

So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away

I get so tired of working so hard for our survival

I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

And all my instincts, they return

And the grand facade, so soon will burn

Without a noise, without my pride

I reach out from the inside

In your eyes

The light the heat

In your eyes

I am complete

In your eyes

I see the doorway to a thousand churches

In your eyes

The resolution of all the fruitless searches

In your eyes

I see the light and the heat

In your eyes

Oh, I want to be that complete

I want to touch the light,

The heat I see in your eyes

In your eyes, in your eyes

In your eyes, in your eyes

In your eyes, in your eyes

In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel

The resolution of all the fruitless searches.