richarddixon2710
richarddixon2710
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Bio
I’m not a writer. I just tell it like it is. I can’t express beauty – I feel it and experience it. How do you describe love ? You can only describe what it does to you and how it makes you feel - but not love itself.
Widowed (14 years ago) and currently living as a partial recluse in a beautiful area of South Africa growing my own organic fruit, vegetables and herbs – frugal fringe benefits to a state pension.
My two children have left home (Ricky 26, living in England, and Heather 20, away at University) so I have plenty of time to read, contemplate and talk to myself. We connect intermittently – when the internet is up.
A Masters degree in Commerce – but I actually detest economics / finance / commerce with a passion. I only took the degree to prove to myself I wasn’t as stupid as my father told me. A range of other qualifications, diplomas, certificates, etc. (mostly useless) - these range from journalism to bricklaying.
I speak my mind – it’s the way I connect. I’m open and I’m real. Pride, shame and fear break this connection. But it takes courage to be vulnerable … to risk showing at the deepest level who you really are. Courage is the human quality that guarantees all the others.
This makes me passionate – but often politically incorrect – which are usually euphemisms anyway. Yes, passion is often accompanied by blood and tears - but it’s the fire in my heart. That flame always burns inside me. If you’re not passionate … what are you ?
Only dead fish float on the surface.
I always seek the truth. So I don’t watch TV. There are very few truth seekers in this world. Only an estimated 2%. I mean absolute truth like Socrates – who paid the ultimate price. Even Pontius Pilate asked ‘what is truth’. It starts by never lying to yourself – if you want to lie you can always justify to yourself something you do … even stuff like theft or adultery.
Yet somehow, like sheeple, we are content with any truth we are fed, passively allowing our minds to be manipulated and controlled by the invisible wind and men’s devious words. And so we build our lives on paradigms and illusions like sandcastles in the sand.
To NOT open the door to truth, is to live forever in your own artificial prison of ignorance, where you may feel secure - when in fact you are trapped like a slave- never free to risk truly living – because only the truth will set you free.
In my youth I used to prospect for diamonds … deep in the Kalahari desert. How I loved my days in those clean wide open spaces under the African sun.
Let me share one of those special moments with you … there is no greater thrill on earth … than standing all alone in some really remote place on this amazing planet a million miles from anywhere … looking at a brilliant, raw, uncut diamond in the palm of your hand.
Oh ... and I love laid back easy listening jazz ... I truly believe it massages your brain.
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