Kicking against The Upgrade You know when you just don’t get it. That thing that everyone else seems to get and you seem to be the only one just not getting it? Like you’re somehow virtually stuck inside the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes and you’re the little guy yelling: “The Emperor’s not wearing any clothes!” I feel like that a lot! I mean A LOT! I landed in Sydney this past weekend essentially on a visit to see my children whom I haven’t seen since the world went mad. I have to say, flying over 10 000 kms via Singapore, (which to my mind is one of the most sanitised countries on the planet, and this was BEFORE the dreaded lurgie,) gives one a lot of time to think and up there in the actual clouds as opposed to the virtual cloud, which it seems is where most people spend most of their time in this new world, potentially gives one a great perspective. Flying over Madagascar above the clouds one is able to make out the western coastline on the approach from the I...
More than one hundred lifetimes later and like the alley cat, back on my feet. "Who are you" I ask the precocious seven year old who used to have the answer to everything, "And where are you going?"