Counterfeit Beauty. Every year a magazine runs a vote called ‘100 sexiest women’ The women all look stunningly drop-dead gorgeous, lips, breasts, eyes, hair to die for. I noticed in a magazine some of the women on their list, know drug abusers. Hard drinkers. Rehab regulars and many regulars to the parade of the media-meltdown…

So the search continues. There she goes, jumping on another plane, heading to another strange, hot location in search of something. In 3 years she has walked out of her job, changed her friends and acquaintances, flown over 3 continents, read and underlined and noted countless manuals, hired an endless list of guru mentors to…

Bullets fly over his head time and time again. Thud, crunch, smash each time another and other bullet hits the wall in front of him. It leaves the old man with a feeling that at any point soon the bullets will break down what remains of the wall finally ending his life.

It’s easy to forget if you watch the news that Egypt was once a World power. They were actually the dominant nation on planet Earth, just like the USA is today.

They built huge monoliths, astonishing Pyramids, heart stopping temples, a system simple of mathematics, an independent writing system, super effective systems for medicines and art that is sought after today along with it’s supreme architecture and ability to control the ever-flooding Nile with a controlled form of irrigation and dams.

I could go on, I won’t and I won’t claim to be a historian of any kind.

This is the part of you that knows, that has always known, that has been covered, been locked away, been held back so many times by the thoughts of others.Yes you are learned and you your historical learning is your route to a better life. Even more important is the feelings within you that you have put aside, you have ignored and you have rarely listened to.This is the time for you to tune in and make changes for the sake of your own life and the lives of those around you.

Here we go again. Another 365 days that start with a promise, a promise to self usually about how incredible, how amazing, how wonderful this year will be over the last. Jane felt that way 7 years ago and all the years since. She’d been through a horrible divorce. On the back of that her…

It’s been momentous and wondrous, I can adore and savor the flavors of those moments looking back.
The dramas, the tribulations, the bitterness and hate of other people, the love and adoration of the few. The highs and lows, the beauty and the beast. The rich, colorful painting of 2010 and the remnants it has left within my body.

Are you angry or simply dismayed at the way revealers of truths are treated, humiliated, lynched and at times murdered by those that make claims to protect your constitution? I am? If you read this blog you also know most of my postings are to do with observations that I see. Right, wrong, that’s not…

The Gap Susan sits alone in her apartment. Head between her hands, alone, in tears, alone. Her man has gone, gone for good and he won’t be coming back. Susan feels her days are empty, her chest filled with fear of being alone, in the morning, during the day and the long endless evenings only…

Imagine a man. He is average, just an average man. Average height, average clothes, average life. His skin is gray, his hair is thinning, he wears an ill fighting black or a pin stripped suit with black shoes he bought from an average man’s clothing shop. He is trying day after day, week after week…

Updates and News with Alan Forrest Smith. I have so much to share with you today I have no idea where to start. I’d just like to share with you if that’s OK with you? If not delete me forever! What I do know is this… I have taken time out to think and regain…

This I suppose is a little off topic for me but the response was so huge on Facebook I really wanted to share it for the simple reason it might help you. I posted this small not on Facebook ‘Being alone is an interesting and very human process. It forces me to discover who I…

As I walked along the old railway in the distance I could see a figure sat in the shade to the left. The closer I got the more detail I could see. It was a man, he was alone, he was sitting down, looking almost staring at the floor. It was sunny yet he was…

Did you see it, read it, the news? Hooked, addicted, news, abuser … this is the world of the News Narcotic! I was in my village today where I live and a guy asked if I’d seen the news all week? I said ‘no’ He reply, ‘no are you serious you don’t know about this…

Music Teacher and Married Mother of 5 Runs off With 25 Year Old Music Student Adulterous Bitch! Shocking right but true. Or is it? Just a few doors away from me lives a lady of 74 years old. Just yesterday as I was putting out some washing to dry I heard a voice shout ‘Alan,…

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I got a text message from a pal of mine. I had already asked him to meet for lunch and chat. His reply was ‘too busy’ I rang him and said doing what? He replied doing stuff. Interesting I know for a fact his life appears to be fast. Going here, going there, doing this,…