you decide.

always question your environment. always search for answers for what you don't understand. always love the possibility that things can change for the better.

oh me, oh my....

it has been so long since i last wrote! how time flies! so much has happened... so much has been experienced and so many emotions have been felt. reading back over my words i feel that i seem like such a black hole... drawing all hope and light from this world. but it really isn't true. and while i do feel such sadness for the state of things that make me sad... i really and truly do believe that this world is the most beautiful place and that people truly do want the same things in life. we all want calming peace... uplifting happiness... the stars to shine brightest on our most loneliest thoughts... the sun to warm even the most forgotten corners of our hearts... for light to shine on all those who feel left in shadow... for all things to exist in a world where there is no pain, no neglect, no torture, no darkness, no gloom, no spidery fingers to claw at us and drag us down, no monsters to tear apart our fragile worlds, no fear to paralyse us.... and no heart break to make us bitter. Only light... the type of light that is found on a spring day... the type of light that is hazy and warm and simply glows like a halo. the type of light that makes everything possible and all our dreams stepping stones to our own reality. we all want the same things. we all want the same world. that is what i truly believe.

Mad for mad people!

"The only people for me are the mad ones,

the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,

mad to be saved, desirous of everything at

the same time, the ones who never yawn or

say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn,

burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles

exploding like spiders across the stars...."

                                                   Jack Kerouac

The time has come for what?

I've realised I still haven't entirely explained my need for writing. Nor have I clearly identified exactly what I will be writing about. As of yet I've merely rambled on about thoughts of impending insanity and the need to save myself.

It's both easy and difficult to label all that I want to write about, all that occupies my deep persistent thoughts.

Simply put, I fail to live peacefully with all that is wrong with this world and more specifically, with all the suffering endured by people and animals at the hands of humans. We seem to have become experts at allowing human suffering to continue as a consequence of political and legal injustices, ignoring environmental degradation, and turning a blind eye to the suffering of animals. I watch in horror as people around me seem to be both desensitised to, and ignorant of, all the sad truths in this world.

Yet at the same time, there is a dim light inside me that glows and hums like the flickering filament of a dying light bulb. I know that I am not alone. I know that there are millions more like me that are desperate to fight against the injustices of this world; people that are wide eyed and alert to the fact that change is not only needed but inevitable. We, all of us like minded souls, exist as beacons across the globe. And no matter how far apart, whether we stand alone or as a part of an organisation, we each of us continue to shine. And that is why I feel the need to write. So that the gentle light inside me will grow and spark the light inside another, and so on, and so on, until the light from all of us combined is so blinding and powerful that revolutionary change will prevail.

The time has come!....

"The time has come," the Walrus said,

"To talk of many things:

Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax -

Of cabbages - and kings -

And why the sea is boling hot -

And whether pigs have wings."

Lewis Carroll.

Why the name for this blogging venture?...

"The time has come..", obviously taken from the mouth of the Walrus and stolen from one of literary's greatest heros Lewis Carroll, was perfect for this moment in time for me. For the time has come.. where I can no longer keep my thoughts quiet. It is time to voice them... the thoughts that keep growing in my mind and threatening to explode.. shattering my sanity if they do.

And the name Florence?... simply because it is a beautiful name. And because beside me while I type lies the "Florence and The Machine" cd.

Together, a perfect combination.

So... why the blog? Why not write my thoughts in a journal? Because then they'd never see the light of day. And more importantly, if my sanity is threatened by the explosion of such tormenting thoughts, then maybe there are others who feel the same frustration.. and by writing down words of expression a connection may be made between like minded souls... and together we can be saved.