Welcome to my blog. I post on this, roughly once a week (it does vary). I sustained a 'Traumatic Acquired Brain Injury', and a six month coma from a 'road traffic accident' whilst cycling, in October 2006. I spent the following 4 years (22-26yrs old), in a combination of hospitals and rehabilitation homes. Now, I have been living independently in Surbiton, England since October 2010. This blog begun life in December 2010, as i realised that there are many people worldwide that i want to share experiences with. I know that, as a wheelchair user, I am obviously not as mobile as i wish, so, use the internet to connect to you. I enjoy letting my thoughts represent through type. I type honestly. As numerous readers, as well as email recipients, will understand, I find typing to be very therapeutic. Thank you :)
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Thursday 18 April 2019

The pencil

There is ALWAYS more than one essence, of something that exists in reality.
It is best to consider many things as contrasts between themselves, and their extreme opposite possibility (essence AND opposing essence)! 
OK, we can consider an object (anything), but we may only recognise it’s essences or characteristics through a singular aspect, considering only the contrast from itself back to what it is not. Only when we look at a number of different aspects, and break them down, can we stop at some level, gaining a greater feel of all that truly is. Let us consider all aspects, together as a whole, and recognise the object for what we truly have. 
A very simple example...


For instance, we have a pencil with which we can write (the main essence). The pencil is wooden, and painted yellow (two more essences). Now, at the top tip, we could find an opposing essence of a pink, rubber, eraser. This end directly offers an ‘opposing essence’. It has the ability to completely undo what the initial aim of the pencil was. Not everything will find it’s opposing essence, so close-by, but somewhere, at sometime in our world, an opposition will exist. Everything has an opposition, somewhere… The total sum of opposing aspects equate with the original, main aspect’s essence, but may not negate them if they are not attributed to do such.

Sorry, if that reads confusingly. 

Last weekend the EHT allowed us one of the closest, photographic representations of a ‘black hole’.
A large telescope was needed. Very large, trans-global. The Event Horizon Telescope is a combination of several huge telescopes, situated across the globe, working together, creating one image.

Finally, we have an answer. Speculation about black holes dates to the early 1900s, when we discovered that light can be warped with fluctuations in gravity. This realization led physicists to theorize that there could be objects in space that have masses and densities so immense that even light, the fastest speed known to man, is trapped in its pull.
Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity claims that as all this energy gets sucked in, it reaches a point at its centre where density reaches an infinite value, creating a gravitational pull nothing can resist. All light and objects are trapped here and can no longer be seen. They call this point the event horizon – the black hole at the centre of the orange loop.

While it all sounds insane, observations made of events that occurred in space would only make sense with Einstein’s framework. Scientists have seen dust clouds and stars interacting with massive gravity waves that they logically assumed would be a black hole. Stars would make loops around an invisible point and slingshot off at great speeds. There are plenty of images of light matter collected around a point suspected to be a black hole, but we’ve never been able to gaze at its core – the event horizon itself, which would put any doubt to rest.
Released on 10 April 2019, the blurred image of a ring of bright orange shed light one of the biggest mysteries of our time. A miracle of technology, data-recording and timing has brought us our first glimpse of a concept that was previously the work of science-fiction.
(explanation) …
... it’s big.
... it’s massive.
... it’s supermassive!

An obvious music link!!!...

Supermassive Black Hole

Let the dogs past! 
Wheelchairs are hugely feared by dogs (and probably other pets too). I often pass the owners and pets. Warned of such panicked canines, in my Rehab Home, I have always been aware of potential problems. As soon as I see an on coming dog and owner, now, I stop. Even passing dogs at an incredible slow speed, seemed to distress many. I don’t want my wheelchair to distress ANYONE or ANYTHING! 

Phillipe Glbert (born 5 July 1982)
Gilbert turned professional in 2003, for the Francaise des Jeux team and has progressed through the Silence-Lotto, BMC, teams and now at Quickstep. He became Professional Road World Champion in 2012, and succeeded last Sunday, racing to Paris-Roubaix victory.
The man deserves huge respect adding this particular race to his almighty list of ‘palmares’. Paris-Roubaix is a cobbled-classic that is usually reserved for big, hard-men with a clear ability of hard-riding on cobbled flatlands. Gilbert has a history of success on a very broad range of course types.

A few highlights of his biggest one-day race victories ...

2006 - Het Volk
2008 - Paris - Tours, Het Volk
2009 - Paris - Tours, Tour of Lombardy 
2010 - Tour of Lombardy, Amstel Gold Race
2011 - Belgium championship, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Amstel Gold, Flèche Wallone, Clasica San Sebastian, Strade Bianche,
2012 - World Championships
2014 - Amstel Gold 
2016 - Belgium championship
2017 - Tours of Flanders, Amstel Gold

2019 - Paris-Roubaix

(A very impressive list)

Above, Gilbert cornering John Lewis in Kingston, competing in the London-Surrey Classic, for BMC.

A screenshot from British Eurosport. 
Riders battle on smoother than previous cobbles, in this year's Paris-Roubaix

‘Hello’
A simple greeting that i always receive from people about town. This politeness is always welcome and i usually share it back, in return. I recognise that I stand out to people, as different. I have no choice. I recognise that it is likely that people are unnerved by approaching a wheelchair user (they know that something is wrong with me, but they do not know what)! Recognition of this fact may hurt me (I, yet again, am reminded that i am different)! I balance this problem, easily, recognising that absolutely no harm is ever intended. I welcome the fact that i am happily greeted.


Notre Dame fire on Monday 15th
My words will fail to describe the tragic, disaster, that you should all already know about. 


A tragic disaster, to such a special place of beauty.


My thoughts are with you Paris. The above photo is greatly upsetting. I finish with a photo from my previous visit, in 2012. Notre Dame must always remembered as the incredible and beautiful cathedral.
Vive le France!




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