• An older person sitting on a concrete bench in the shade, looking at his mobile phone, being watched by a second person. Copyright Urban Camera 2024
    Commentary,  Life

    Dinosaur: Your Time Has Long Gone

    I’ve never considered myself to be old, at least, not until the doctors starting telling me I really needed to lie down on the operating table and have a few things done to keep the old pump beating. And, to a certain extent, I still do not consider myself to be old despite what others might claim: I have been referred to as Grandpa, and the Old Man by various people, although I have tried to appear as if they couldn’t have been referring to me, and simply gone on my way. When it comes to technology, though, and the advances in computers and telecommunications, well, let me tell you…

  • A possibly homeless person sleeping across his rucksack on a bench. Copyright Urban Camera 2024
    Life

    A Place For Everything

    I am fairly sure that most people, perhaps more likely the older, but younger may have been subjected to this too, know the phrase: ” A Place for Everything, and Everything in its Place.” I heard it constantly uttered as a child, but always from my grandparents, never anyone else. Perhaps it is a thing which springs over a generation now and then, as those on the receiving end vow never to repeat what they have experienced in their youth, and bring their children up differently, or perhaps it is just me. Regardless of which, as I get inevitably older, it is a sentence I have begun using to myself…

  • A small child alone, in Osnabrück, Germany. Copyright: Urban Camera 2024.
    Commentary,  Life

    A Time for Thought and Reflection

    At what age do we take a step back from life and ask what it is that we are doing, or what have we done, and has it all been worthwhile? Is there just one point in our life, or are there many? Do we just charge headlong into whatever is before us and see what comes and then, when it is all done and through, when we get to the other side, stop and glance back at what has happened? And, what is it that makes us stop and consider, reflect? There is a memory in my mind of sitting in a large classroom, surrounded by other young children,…

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