THE realms that we once knew, into semblances we can heed and understand. Though torn, they can yet be revisited to return to a more balanced ethic that we can interpret above the offensive illusion against its lack of the ‘heckling tribe’ towards judgement of the feelings. The blame of man, then woman, is a terrible onslaught. Reasoning is not conferred, but vengeance is sought. Today, guilt is judgement and is swiftly used as an entity to destroy, to condemn, and is placed as a shield to bury the shield holder’s guilt, whether it be guilt embraced or alive to be explored. We have got to be wiser than the inner insult thrown at us or our own ‘ego gone wild’ through deception or revealed contempt.

The inner decency is why the stray cat or other animal will embrace your kindness and breach thousands of years to respond favourably to, and befriend, your gesture: the long-distrusted embrace of humankind, a creature not yet sure of the more ancient of our animal world. The pageantry of human change can be transferred carefully, with the caution of an artist, to our adult entertainment, with all the suspicions and vexations, beginning with who is responsible for the forbidden fruit, which we must concede was a delicacy of multiple grace and sensuality. We’ve got to contemplate the alternative and summon our human gifts to explore change…in an age that has drifted into another age…