WAW –
Flowers are actually very religious, they worship the sun or they worship the moon, but both raise their hands/petals to life! Many religions follow the lead of flowers, raising their hands to the heavens or the sun above, from the ancients to the present day but all of us no matter what religion or belief should be more like the flowers! Give beauty to the world, go about it quietly and worship in your own way and have a purpose to sustain life! Life gives, life takes but no matter our petty earthling squabbles and corruptions, life and the flowers will reclaim and go on, even without us!

WAW – It is well known that if you place a handful of dirt in a glass of water, or coffee grinds in hot water, they will sink to the bottom and the water is on top. This is exactly the same as the earth, with the bigger masses at the bottom of the earth and the mass water bodies on top! Opposite to popular thought! So how about NZ, Aust and a few others? Just like a hot coffee with the grinds at the bottom, so the Crema floats on top! We are surely the cream of the world!

WAW – Do you know why most birds have such good singing voices? Because they can fly above the tree tops and see all nature spread out below in its glory! Such joy and worth singing about! That is why the kiwi bird is so quiet, it cannot see the splendour from the forest floor!

WAW – Why do plants always grow up? Maybe not to do with sunlight, maybe showing the way to heaven, and this from a totally non-religious guy!!! Surely nature is a big part of Paradise/Heaven and is actually our Paradise that has already been given to us! You know that when we finally leave earth to enter Paradise, we are only going to be sent back with the instruction “I already gave you Paradise, now go back and fix it up!” Maybe the Hindus have something in their religion after all!

WAW – A Sign of the Times – I used to have hand calluses from the gardening, still have some foot calluses from road running, but definitely getting calluses on my ears from the corona mask straps!

WAW – What is really the world’s oldest profession? Some say that prostitution is, but as a cook I may be one sided, but I do not know of any hungry person who does not prefer to eat before they get into some intimate romp! Cook a good meal and the night is nearly guaranteed, so light that fire, cut up the mammoth and get out the bear rug, a satisfied stomach leads the mind to other matters beyond the fire light!

WAW – Now who is afraid of dying? Certainly it should not be the religious, who have a reward to go to! The Hindus come back but they cannot remember the past, the Buddhist the same on their way to achieving Nirvana, and paradise or not awaits us all! The problem with dying is actually how you die! In bed with loved ones around seems to be the best, but the trouble with the world it does not always work out this way. But dead is dying and moving on and no matter what, we again revert back to a more basic part of the cosmos, and guess what – live again! Reborn as atoms and electrons etc to become part of the stars and the heavens, either enjoying our just reward or not!

WAW – Now what might be heaven or hell. The universe is made of light matter and dark matter, and the dark matter is apparently expanding, which does not surprise me! Just maybe a good and just life lived in whatever culture or religion means your basics are at peace with the cosmos, your atoms align with the heavens and the brightness of the stars and all the glory of the universe! But a life lived in conflict and so called evil creates protons, electrons and neutrons that are part of the dark matter out there, the black holes and the chaos in the universe! One in heaven and one in hell!

WAW – The Handshake! Now, it has been widely reported as a sign of fitness. That a person’s strong handshake shows robustness, and reports show good immunity and ability to fight disease. But in this day of corona and no-more handshakes, I do not know any more if I am  healthy or succumbing!

WAW – I firmly believe in the old joke of the person who goes to the Heavenly gates and is asked what they are there for? The person replies “to enter into Heaven!” The gate keeper then says, we gave you heaven, a place called earth, look what you have done to it, now go back and fix up your mess! Maybe that is our rebirth, come back and make the place and our lives better than how we left it previously!

WAW – You do not believe in paradise on earth? Just look around you and OPEN your eyes. The delicate flower that is just opening, the top of the mountain view, the sunrise or sunset on the beach, the many different shades of green in the bush, the song of the birds, the power of the animals, the hidden gems all around our planet! So much paradise if only we look!

WAW – It must be said! With the Gaza conflict, Israel says to the Gaza people, look, behave yourselves and become good citizens and we shall treat you just the same as the West Bank! Right, steal your land, rob you of your houses, shoot you, restrict you, cut you off from your heritage! Sure sounds a tempting offer to me!

WAW – When did it become acceptable to target a few militants and in the process, leave 50, 60 or 90 innocents dead, as an acceptable means of conducting a war? Let’s face it through, Israel is not the first to do this, and all around the world it seems hospitals, schools, apartments, houses and department stores are all acceptable targets now, instead of good old-fashioned warfare where the soldiers who get paid for it, go in to knock out a tank or kill their enemies!

WAW – Where did respect go to? One country and yet they cannot respect a different minority and it always leads to conflicts. In a nutshell, Sri Lanka, (Sinhalese & Tamil), India (Hindu & Muslim), Ukraine, (Ukrainian and Russian speakers), Israel with the Palestinians, the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq, the different tribal groups in Africa all fighting each other with different pretenses, the island of Ireland (Protestant and Catholic), Australia, NZ, USA and Canada with their past or present treatment of indigenous peoples, and the list goes on! It maybe a very simplified version, but where did any respect for our fellow humans go to!!!

WAW – Are Archaeologists and Surgeons the most colour-blind people in the world? An archaeologist digs up old bones and cannot tell if the bleached bones were once of a black, brown, white, pink or green person when they were alive, and for the surgeon, once he cuts into a person for an operation, the bones are white, the blood is red, the fats are grey and the brain is pink, all the same colours for all of us!