You are a survivor. I am a survivor. Our parents were survivors. We are alive, but we are mortal. However, the Tree of Life is immortal. We are all survivors — We are the buds, blossoms and fruit on the vast Tree of Immortal Life, which includes every living human…

A few years ago, rummaging through the diaries of my future self, I stumbled across the first chapter of a book that apparently I would start to write. I thought, how could I have written such improbable drivel? Surely, the delusions of my demented 105 year old self. Then, just…

I took the chance and jumped through the just-opening immortality window in 2030. What did I think about my immortal future? Many scoffed at my undertaking. They seemed to hate their life and couldn’t wait for it to end. “Why would I want to live any longer — life is…

Word is that Facebook is Meta and wants us to live in their artificial world called, as I read on Twitter, the Zuckerverse. You can enter its portals, meet with friends, shop, travel, have sex with machines, whatever. Every time you enter, it inserts its parasitic, prehensile proboscis deep into…

Lean into the Pacific breeze on precarious cliff-perches, Risking their own lives that their coconut children Might catch a wave and sail far across the sea, Starting a new life on some far distant shore.

At 73 only roses as far as my eyes can see…

In defiance of their cultural stereotype as loners, at night hermit crabs love to gather for raucous shell trading parties. Morning finds them sleeping it off on the dance floor under the warm tropical sun and wondering whose shell they are waking up in today.

How the Elephants Got Their Ears Long ago, distressed by the sudden loss of the magnificent, cold, but very large dinosaurs, the Green Gaians of Earth undertook a contest to fashion a massive new animal from the DNA of the warm and cuddly, but not very large mammals. The vines proposed a long nose, that could…

Meandering through the rain forest along a muddy, winding track in the general direction of eternity, cresting a hill, we happened upon a magnificent Gaian tango competition, already well under way. The sun encircled the rain with her shimmering bow, swirling across the dance floor in a passionate pas de…