Category: Steps on my Road – an Epidemic of Suicide

www.stepsonmyroad.org Wanted – an HONEST FOOL In an age of screamingly strident Political Correctness, how easy it is to hide behind the blank facade of non-committal. Long Live the Multiple shades of Gray on Gray. On Gray. On the other hand, to BE, to EXIST, to LIVE, in glorious shades of noisy techni-color, means to…

www.stepsonmyroad.org What YARDSTICK are you using…? HOW are you measuring? I find that really interesting. Obviously, if you are measuring potatoes in gallons, or turnips in light years, you’re gonna get some funky results. So, how do we accurately measure our personal circumstances? How to get a fair, balanced, objective value for our lot? When…

Still stuck in that Dark Cave? Wanna Challenge? Fix THIS! So, while you hid away in your Dark Cave, in pain, or despair, or fear, or feelings of impotence, the world has been going to hell in a hand basket. Do I expect you to crawl out and fix it? No, unless you are another…

www.stepsonmyroad.org Don’t think about making Art, just clatter right on The suicide toll amongst artistic, feeling, sensitive people, is high. It’s the artistic types, who take too much on board, who drop before their prime. Why worry about making Art? Why worry if it’s good enough? Expressive enough? Sensitive enough? Artistic enough? “Yah, booh!, sucks!…

www.stepsonmyroad.org I had an old Aunt, who went skipping with me Funny old girl. Very kind person. My mother’s sister, Jenna. We were in London, walking along a street. I started skipping. Hell, I was maybe ten years old or so. She started skipping. Nothing wrong with that. Except she was in her late sixties’.…

www.stepsonmyroad.org So you think YOU are different…? Seems to little moi that folk are SO amazingly different, yet so amazingly similar, when it comes to emotions, hopes and outlook, expectations and disappointments. I’ve been a hero to some, and a villain to others. Take your pick. I try real hard. Maybe I fail real hard.…

www.stepsonmyroad.org Hey! Gonna STAR in a MOVIE…!! In the same way as it could be said that we little humans have a TICKET to ride, I tend to think (I know, I’m mental) that we also have a chance to STAR in our own MOVIE. The image of the Mad Conductor comes to mind, facing…

www.stepsonmyroad.org Hey! Gotta TICKET TO RIDE…!! For some reason, I have long thought of Life as being a privilege to live. It seems to me that we all get this one, precious, TICKET-TO-RIDE. The lucky sperm, as it were. The guy who beat a couple of thousand other frantic tadpoles to it. Hay-hay! Look at…

www.stepsonmyroad.org The Overview Effect If you’re not familiar with that term, “Overview Effect “, it is explained in this video. If you are stuck down in a cave, I know it’s a long, long way from there to this ‘Overview’. As a pilot for many years, I have been extraordinarily blessed to make my own…

www.stepsonmyroad.org The Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan It’s not that hard to end up in a Lonely, Dark Place. Every year, some one million human souls, world wide, choose to end their lives. That’s one, every forty seconds. By 2020, the World Health Organisation estimate that to increase to one every twenty seconds. It’s…