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• Chapter 13: take a walk on the wildside

  Jul 11, 14 • 17980 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • No Comments

    If you want to know what this blog is about… The wildside is just outside your door   My son found a male bullfinch yesterday and brought it home. It was alive, bu totally disheveled. He just picked it up from the ground with no fuss. We

• Chapter 12: we could be heroes

  Jul 9, 14 • 3379 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • No Comments

    If you want to know what this blog is about… The whale hunters   There is a little spot in the Basque coast, a small fishing town nested between steep vineyard-covered hills and the sea. The coastline is unforgiving there, little more

• Chapter 11: win a world championship

  Jul 7, 14 • 3064 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • No Comments

    If you want to know what this blog is about… Winning is all, a lose-lose situation   The runner-up is the first of the losers. I hate that quote. I not only think it is utter crap, I also think it is bland, conformist and childish. It is a

• Chapter 10: no such thing as magic

  Jul 4, 14 • 6740 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • No Comments

    If you want to know what this blog is about… Well we all know magic is bullshit, right? Or is it? I think magic exists. I consciously choose to. I have not seen anything magical in my whole life, no elves, no trolls, no wizards conjuring evil

• Chapter 9: countdown to extinction

  Jul 2, 14 • 369278 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • 4 Comments

      If you want to know what this blog is about… There is something about Earth and extinction we do not get right   I do not care much for “ecologists”. Wait, keep on reading,  let me explain. I like anti-ecologists even

• Chapter 8: how to avoid lousy Mondays

  Jun 30, 14 • 8232 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • 2 Comments

    If you want to know what this blog is about… Monday again, damn…   Monday. Weekend gone, five working days ahead before we are free again. Damn… I do not hate Mondays. I cannot allow myself the luxury of hating one seventh of my

• Chapter 7: love without cheese

  Jun 27, 14 • 3476 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • 1 Comment

    If you want to know what this blog is about… Another cheesy post about love? I hope not…   There is this idea that to talk about feelings in general and love in particular, you have to be a cheesy romantic or a band singer. I

• Chapter 6: our cherised women

  Jun 25, 14 • 7136 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • 10 Comments

    If you want to know what this blog is about… Women: the First religion?   Prehistoric cavemen painted things they considered of interest. They painted all kinds of animals. There was something mystic about them, beyond the hunt. They also

• Chapter 5: art, artists and other human beings

  Jun 23, 14 • 3379 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • 2 Comments

      If you want to know what this blog is about… What is art and who is an artist?   There seems to be a lot of controversy  around this question. The people who are supposed to “understand” and moreover, the people who

• Chapter 4: I know you know, but just in case…

  Jun 20, 14 • 4678 Views • Uncategorized • Weston Westmoreland • 6 Comments

    If you want to know what this blog is about… Talking too much and talking too little   Most people are pretty capable of speaking their minds when they do not like something. In fact, many have no big problems edging on the side of rude.