Eve Poole

God wasn't fooling around when making each and everyone of us, to be special, precious, and loved. 18/4/23

You may already heard, her majesty the queen is 96 today, she's been queen for 70 years, by the time of her platinum jubilee in June, she will be the world's 3rd longest serving monarch. By the Christmas she'll be second only to one King if France, who top the league tables with a reign over 72 years and 110 days.

I must confess I am a total kill joy by the April's fools day. I'm haunted by memory of one of my primary teachers sending a heartless boy down to the corridor to ask another teacher for a long stand, and I could still clearly remember the teacher being endeared for fooling something foolish.

While the dark shadow of war gathering on Ukraine, scientists have build a star, managed to generate energy from hydrogen atoms for a 4-5 seconds. It's a major milestone in developing new clear energy source. What is these situations have in common is that it shows the best and worst case scenarios for our use of artificial intelligence.

BlackFriday seems started early this year, technically it’s this Friday, the day after ThanksGiving, but my inbox seems full of deals all month. But do you know why we shop, the sociologist thinks it’s because we fear death, shopping keep this fear at bay, because it’s distracting, buying stuff in reality makes our lives feels more substantial. And buying cool stuff such as approved from our superiors makes us feel really alive.

Scotland is top of European League, sadly it's for drug death, and this week we're back at top of UK alcohol related death too. There're a lot of people inject drugs all the time, for diabetes, or fertility treatment. But we directly disapprove those who break the law, regardless of the tragic stories behind the statistics. And in some ways that's right, if we didn't disapproval laws breaking, it'd become normal, and the law ceases to work. But alcohol isn't illegal, and we still look down those who found themselves dependent on it. And if drugs were less criminalised would we be less judgemental? I doubt it. I think our disapproval are deeply rooted. Because we really struggle the idea for anyone, life might only be bearable through drug or buzz filled haze. The Greeks had a word for it, Soul Sickness. One had call it the Sorrow of the World.

Galloway Hoard exhibition, mixture of valuable metal and religious artefacts, but some puzzles as well. There was two carefully preserved lumps of mud. So bizarre, when subjected to detailed chemical test, which suggest they're in fact earth relics. It seems pilgrim to holy land would rub earth on the shrines they visited, then bring the earth home as sacred memory of their trip. I know kids do something similar, collecting sand from every beach they visited.

It’s St George’s day today, and I often wondered what the patron saints do for each others’ birthdays. Does David take George for a dance, while Patrick plays the harp, while Andrew pour him wishkey?

There's very human need to reconnect with loved ones, is the reason why the TV program Repair Shop has become such a compulsive lockdown viewing. In it, people bring in cherished items for restoration, later, they return to repair shop retrieve their mental possession, then the tear starts, the feel of the leather or the word, the sound of mechanism or the chain, the smell of the inside, or the fulfilment of a promise to a long dead father. It's like having trance they say.