July 2023 – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

Today, I swam.

…as we reach and pass our mid-age, we face the finitude of our lives and realise things can’t go on for ever.

A letter to my old friend.

In 1990 I remember phoning you from Glasgow, hoping that my dad would not question the phone bill.

He never did.

I worry what it is like to belong to a minority in Israel.

Maybe aggression in cars replaces a need for actual fisticuffs.

My towel, your towel, our towel. A story of The Land. Israel & Palestine.

Negotiating the sensitive place that exists between mine, yours and ours by means of national and racial stereotyping.

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbo(u)r

Of course, the truth is objective or, if you are a scientist, a theory that is waiting to be disproved.

Little failure

Fail to try and your try to fail.

A stranger in an unusual land. (The Odd Blog comes home)

‘You sound Scottish, how come?’ or, ‘Your family, where they from?’