Category Archives: History

Happy earth day

Posted on April 25, 2022 by niebla

Not much good recent news for Mother Earth, I’m afraid. In particular, she’s getting impregnated with shells, mines and dead bodies in Ukraine, and the rest is no better: deforestation, CO2, plastic all over, toxic waste. Thank God some people … Continue reading →

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The Great Big Nothing

Posted on January 19, 2022 by niebla

I always thought the Big Bang was simply a theory among others. Lately I get the feeling it’s become accepted scientific truth. What really interests me, though, is what there was before the Big Bang. The Great Big Nothing? – … Continue reading →

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A world ends

Posted on August 6, 2021 by niebla

Slowly slowly theworld slowly slowly slowlyends (evanesces) – Niebla (© 2021)

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Bottlebrush etymology

Posted on June 2, 2021 by niebla

I wonder what bottlebrush was called before there were bottles and brushes. – Niebla Latin name: callistemon. This plant is native to Australia.

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Diabolical

Posted on February 20, 2018 by niebla

So God said to Lucifer, “You will have to pretend to disobey me while you do exactly as I say.” “Ok.” “And for all practical and theological purposes this meeting never took place.” “I’m not comfortable with this, and you … Continue reading →

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The tip of the anthill

Posted on July 12, 2015 by niebla

(thinking of Srebrenica and two late 20th century monsters – Karadžić and Mladić) The worst are always at the tip but the tip is nothing without the masses below the faithful and fanatic executioners reaching down into the ugly subterranean subconscious … Continue reading →

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Somewhere

Posted on September 26, 2013 by niebla

Somewhere there’s got to be an end to it, this Allah says and this Jehovah says and this scripture says and therefore I am right and you are wrong and I eat the right things and you eat the wrong … Continue reading →

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August 1914

Posted on August 29, 2011 by niebla

Hot, hot summer, dry golden fields of wheat, harvested Hot, hot summer, thunder of a thousand boots on dry golden fields of wheat Fire and death on scorched fields of wheat, blood harvest – Niebla (© 2011) Written and posted … Continue reading →

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To them out there …

Posted on October 25, 2010 by niebla

To those gloating outside her cell, it looked like she had accepted her cruel fate, eyes demurely downcast and all. They did not know about those lumpy things on the tray, and that very special liquid in the jug. Lancelot … Continue reading →

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One word

Posted on April 20, 2009 by niebla

… a perfect illustration of the blur of time – evanescence, transience, eradication. Continue reading →

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