no name – the little right nobody rode
Bondi
Jan 14
Well, here we are … 2022 done, 2023 tomorrow.
1,031 posts done since 2010, many of them lifted from Realsurf, more from Kurungabaa, five books produced despite the language and brutal subjects. Readers come and go. Times change. Surfers aged twenty in ‘64 approach 79 in ‘23.
Old friends in the earth, old places overcome, gravel roads now highways and everybody surfs.
But it’s all good because riding a wave is about the best thing a man or woman can do.
Happy New Year, and always pray for surf.
Oct 23
The Chinese Way ..
Confucius described old age as a “good and pleasant thing” which caused you to be “gently shouldered off the stage, but given a comfortable front stall as spectator.” This honorable sentiment paints a melancholic image of how senior citizens should be treated, given peace in their twilight years while able to freely dispense their wisdom to younger generations.
Saturday 22 Oct 2022. Former Chinese President Hu Jintao is gently shouldered off the stage during the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-president-hu-jintao-xi-jinping-communist-party-congress/
Oct 22
despised …
Slouched, shrunken, aged. Putin listens to the woman who dares question him about his war … he picks his fingers and wishes her away.
as far as kings go, this bloke will do me
The beach, where all men are equal….
A most gracious lady
HM with my wife’s younger brother, Flight Lieutenant Terry Cairns RAF … she’d just presented him with the Sword of Honour, and not for the first time. He told me he thought she liked him, as he did her.
As we can see.
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