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A Vocal Centurion
This is my hundredth post on Vocal, should I do a poem or should I write about what I have learned or learnt or is it both or neither. English grammar can be a pain at times. I saw ads for Vocal sort of advertising untold riches , but this year I was scaling down my writing on by blog Seven Days In and that has gone down to around one a week (but 100 posts so far this year , down from my biggest year when I averaged more than one a day.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Journal
Do It Again
This this that made me think on writing this post is that I have recently started rereading the F Paul Wilson book “Reborn” the third in the “Adversary” series , more of that later but it made start about the things we do again and again out of choice or necessity , from small things to big things.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Journal
Welcome To The Machine
I've just been struck how much machines are encroaching on our working lives. The Luddites smashed the machines during the industrial revolution because they feared that their jobs and therefore their livelihoods would be threatened. The French threw their clogs (sabots) into the machines to wreck them (hence the word "sabotage"). It turned out the Luddites were wrong , the industrial revolution produced great economies of scale for goods that could be mass produced, and generally standards of living improved.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Humans
Sleep And Creativity
I have a bit of a headache , it’s half an hour after midnight , so I’m just into Sunday morning but I feel that I need to write something. I sort of feel if I don't write then I lose something and I can always lie in tomorrow, I don’t have to get up for work until Monday.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Journal
My 911
Around September the 10th 2001 I was flying over the East coast of the USA to touch down in Mexico for a two week holiday. I was working for a company called SSS who provided IT support for Morgan Stanley who had a big presence in the World Trade Centre. My mate Jim was flying over for a work and holiday week in New York with some other SSS guys.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Confessions
Two Free Form
This is a very free form stream of consciousness poem that I wrote , rather spoke , when walking to test if I could upload a story to Vocal. When it finished I tried and got the picture above. Please Vocal make sure all your members can post, not everyone has a computer.
By Mike Singleton - Mikeydred3 years ago in Poets