Is it all worth it ...

I wonder. What have i done, what have i achieved? What remains to be done.

It is, perhaps, easier for those with Family. Children. I have none - well one, a son ...

Fruit of my loins. Has a genetic history stretching back to Lincolnshire circa 1580. With many twists and turns though several countries - even has a sort of famous (G,G,G, uncle). How many boys can claim that? And yet, and yet .... he refuses to acknowlege me. A "father" i never was, but AM his sire.

Did i do something "wrong"? Self thinks not - but the fact remains - he never experienced what is now touted as a "real" family. A mum, dad, 2.5 children, brick veneer home with white picket fence. Perhaps a dog, cat , half a dozen hamsters ... mice under the floorboards. Harvey Normal furniture and a 42 inch plasma TV screen.

What he was born into, was a Mum, Dad - both a bit 'theatrical' (hey, it was past the 'swinging 60's and into the 'revolutionary' 70's). Um, his Mum's father was a rather strict, Calvinist, school Headmaster .... which made things sort of difficult. Oddly enough, i really liked my 'Mother-in-law', A blackhead Celt from way back. Have no idea how a  'strict Pom' and a 'rebellious Celt' stayed together for so long. 5 children.

So, my wife (the eldest) was born in Singapore, i liked her, she married me. One son.

Yes, i know, complicated. My own immediate family?
Mother was third child of a country blacksmith. Father was .... not really sure; never knew him.
Know his "history" - but he died in 1945; six months after i was born. O yes, mother and father married long before that .... but have often wondered why.

My father's family were, actually, quite "well off" in Adelaide .. Tooraky sort of people - educated, with servants and stuff..

So, cutting a longish story short - has left me with a sort of wonder as to who i should be; how i should behave - or simply be "independent" and 'make it up' as i go along.

Now, at my age, it's sort of scary.

democracy

um, well, i can sit here mumbling in my isolated eirie.
.. but hey ..

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tackling pollution

 Can't (or perhaps won't) get too involved in this discussion. Basically, too old, it matters not to me. "Activism" belongs to the young - the next generations - who will be the ones to inherit the problems.

However, my 2.2 cents worth. One of the things that fascinates me is the "Politics".  As far as i can discern, 'big business' IS prepared to adapt - what IS 'holding up the process' is "uncertainty".
 .. and THAT is what i will never forgive Tony Abbot for.

 .. and, frankly, this is a rather pathetic little video (it does seem to be aimed at the 'lowest common idiot  denominator  child. Not all Australians are fixated on rugby, horseracing, the Murdoch information Empire - or Allan Jones).


It could have been far, far more dramatic; and effective.

(Playschool? Anyone?)

two pic short story challenge

How, why, what, when and where.