This lovely little book is all about celebrating a life that has passed, celebrating the person rather than burying them under dogma and superstition. For the many people for whom religion has been revealed as illogical and unhelpful, the words of practical advice, care, empathy, and comfort form a wonderful substitute to the usual services …
Month: Jun 2023
#ScenicSaturday 24th June 2023
My photos here show the often-fragile beauty of our world. My hope is they will encourage viewers to act in ways that will help save it from the destruction we humans constantly cause to nature.This one shows the natural beauty of an ancient tree surrounded by newer relatives in an English forest. Trees provide a …
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#ScenicSaturday 17th June 2023
My photos here show the often-fragile beauty of our world. My hope is they will encourage viewers to act in ways that will help save it from the destruction we humans constantly cause to nature.This one is of a calm sea under a rising moon shortly after sunset on the south coast of England. I …
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After the Barricades, by Jessica Stilling: #BookReview.
468 pagesHistorical Literary Fiction The world, it seems, changes little in spite of protests about injustice and inequality. This novel, set essentially in the Paris student riots (I prefer rebellion, protests, political activism) of 1968, relates the times as seen through the eyes of some students and an artist who understands and befriends the workers. …
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#ScenicSaturday 10th June 2023
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA My photos here show the often-fragile beauty of our world. My hope is they will encourage viewers to act in ways that will help save it from the destruction we humans constantly cause to nature.This one depicts the uneasy relationship between nature and farming to grow food. These hills, part of the …
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Gliding Into the 70s
A Towing Plane Lifts a Glider Into the Sky Last year, we celebrated Valerie’s birthday with a hot air balloon flight launched from Bath. This year, she wanted to try gliding. I’d flown with the RAF (only 55 years ago, so the memory’s still quite strong), so made the event entirely for her. I searched …
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#ScenicSaturday 3rd June 2023
My photos here show the beauty of our world. My hope is they will encourage viewers to act in ways that will help save it from the destruction we humans are causing to nature.This one depicts part of the Jurassic Coast in southern England. # If you comment, like, and share the post, it’ll help …
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Artificial Intelligence, or #AI: Just Sayin’
Recently, there’s been a sudden increase in interest surrounding Artificial Intelligence; in particular the fear of potential dangers of this development have come to the fore. The subject has long been popular with science fiction writers, and I’ve had a go at it in a couple of my novels. In ‘The Methuselah Strain’, my story …
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Stuart Aken 