Category Archives: Environment

In Search Of Improvement

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Those friendships we enjoyed, so casually, in a life, not overburdened with demands, allowed us room to celebrate with ease, a freedom we now find embalmed in photographs, and  some remaining artefacts. Me grinning with a new caught fish, the … Continue reading →

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Four Years A Blogging

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Here is a picture WordPress sent me to mark my fourth anniversary on their site. As you can see, no expense has been spared in WordPress’s celebration of my entrance to the vintage Bloggers club. To be honest, I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Memoirs Of An Exile,

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

Do you know how often you were loved? I do. Just once, and not by my own mother, brother or sisters. As children, and as a family, we lived in a sea of wreckage, trying to make sense of our own … Continue reading →

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Technical Interface And The Older Brain

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

My brain is largely empty, because I have always disliked clutter, and I sieve changes in the world using a complex set of reflexes commonly known as “Lack of Interest.”  Never the less, on regular occasions we enjoy the company of my … Continue reading →

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A Half-Way Life

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I did not choose my wife so much as she selected me, I suspect, because I was a biddable man of decent family, with a gift for mathematics which promised a future of passionless security. She was a women who, in other … Continue reading →

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A Matter Of Appearances

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I thought of a man who had the following dream. He went into a shop because he needed a suit for a wedding. The tailor listened to him carefully, nodding and taking notes before vanishing into the back of the … Continue reading →

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The G20 And The Voice Of Wisdom

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

As world leaders meet once again  to talk about the problems besetting the planet, including our environment, economies and political stability, the newspaper columns are full of Putin and the Ukraine border crisis. His manner is contained, unapologetic and stubborn, blaming any difficulty … Continue reading →

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A Glorious Man In Passing But Impossible to Live With

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I remember those heady days when we first entered college, dropped our bags and said goodbye to our parents, after conversations filled with awkward love and soon-forgotton advice. I remember meeting my new roommates, and sharing stories and then drinks and nodding a … Continue reading →

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Responding To A Drowning Man

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

I was standing on the bridge the other evening, admiring the view, and the way the current played against the boats moored on the river side when a man thrashing around desperately in the water appeared from underneath the bridge. … Continue reading →

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The Last Message Home

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Peter Wells aka Countingducks

You heard it on a radio, some transmission made decades before, a fragment of a conversation, picked up as your ship travels its now uncharted path. “I’ll see you soon, put the kettle on,”  then  laughter and a silence which is infinite. “What was this life, … Continue reading →

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