Life, Superannuation, and death

After spending about 20 years in the specialty of palliative care nursing, particularly end-of-life pain control and precise narcotic titration, when I was 50 I decided to somehow retire no matter what...but not because I had any money, or any future agenda, but rather because I saw how many people at the end of their working life at 60 or 70, just died so fast. They still do. Nothing has changed.
So I'm 61 now. I work fulltime in Mental Health now, because I need the money. I work there instead of in end stage palliative care pain control, in which I became quite an expert nd still am.
I like mental health. It's much easier.
For about a decade after retirement I travelled the Earth, found love and sorrow and amazing things of a personal nature,
and all the things that come with living a complete and completing life, in a few different countries and societies, so amazing and so different and oppositional to every thing I ever did... and all in all it's been a good thing for me and has supported my initial reason for leaving the flock.
I have no superannuation at all, and you know, that's the best thing I ever did.

4 years old afghan boy singing a song perfect voice

The real problem with Australia

That's the thing with Australia, we are so peace loving, and yet, at the same time, we are bombing Iraqi villages every day, still...and then trying to keep burning Iraqis from coming here, like it's a moral agenda. If you don't want them to come here, then, for fuck's sake, we need to stop bombing them in their own homes!

Shirt fronting the Alps

I notice Tony Abbott sent out a nice message to Australian victims families involved in the crash of the German plane.
I am still waiting for him to launch a bizarre statement that he will 'shirt front' the French Alps.

Yangtze River Dolphin Extinct

Ten years of study by Chinese Environmental Scientists and Analysts have concluded that the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin was not due to environmental or industrial pollution but rather due to the fact that they tasted so good.

N. Korea agrees to discuss projects with Russia, South Korea North Korea has agreed to discuss trilateral cooperation with Russia and South Korea on creating advanced development zones in the Russian Far East, according to Voice of America (VOA). Visit NK News for more Large wildfire burning in the DMZ between North and South Korea A large wildfire is currently burning in one of the DMZ’s forests between North and South Korea, the Yonhap News Agency reported. Visit NK News for more

Defense bolstered five years after Cheonan sinking (The Korea Herald) Five years after North Korea’s torpedo attack on the corvette Cheonan, the South Korean Navy has expressed full confidence in its enhanced capabilities to counter another provocation. Effort to prevent outflow of capital into markets (NK EconWatch) Since the start of the Kim Jong Un era, North Korea has introduced elements of a market economy while at the same time sought ways to mitigate the side effects.