List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.

It’s impossible to begin the list without the statesman Benjamin Franklin being at the top.Taken from a letter he wrote in 1789 stating,’ In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes’. His quote has stood the test of time, but I  am sure it had crossed the minds of others before him, though.

I can assure you that the passing of a companion animal is absolutely heartbreaking.

Brazil is the most biodiverse country in the world, with more species of plants, animals, mammals, and fresh water fish than anywhere else on the planet.

Sad that it is, I am also certain I will never get to see Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in concert, ever again.

Night follows day.

Time and tide wait for no man.                     Geoffrey Chaucer ( ?- 1400)

By 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish.

‘ Life is a succession of lessons which need to be lived to be understood’            Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The majority of our world leaders are unhinged and without a moral compass.