I though the way conversation worked was that you would say somoething and I would listen, then I would say something and you would listen. I also thought that immediacy was crucial. No time for long pauses and messing around – just get on with the talking. So I was grateful to learn from key […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Enjoy the SilenceTeaching is one of my greatest loves. It’s a great love, because being a student is one of my greatest loves. The thing about learning is that it will change your mind as much as you allow it do so. Apparently people reach a stage where they’re not that pliable to having their mind changed. […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: Change Your MindI know that laughter comes from God. All good things come from God and laughter is designed to be good. As with a number of things that humans have taken a hold of, it’s tended to be corrupted, but laughter in essence is a good thing. Smiling is beautiful, but from the gut, tear-jerking, hand-slapping […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: LaughOne of the things I love about reading is how important it is to stop to pay attention to it. In certain conversations I have, it’s as though the other person isn’t so much keen on stopping to pay attention as looking for the opportunity to unload their spiel. You can’t do that with reading […]
Read More Dryden Shorts: ReadingAh the issue of identity. Some view it through racial, gender, sexuality and physical/mental capacity perspectives. Some believe it’s something that can be sorted all by yourself. There is something about having the humility to realise that maybe not being certain on everything about your identity is good place to start. And also understanding that […]
Read More Place To Be Who You AreThe Bible is full of episodes of real experiences that people throughout time can relate with. Sure there are those occasioons that not everyone goes through. As yet I’ve not been needed to take stroll across a sea in a rough and stormy situation. I’ve not lived in a asmall village that was surrounded by […]
Read More A Good Companion for the CrisisThe day is long and exhausting. All I want to do at the end of it is to rest. And the end of it can be fairly late on. There’s the time invested in the workplace. There’s the quality time with the children. There’s the conversations with other loved ones. It is not a chore, […]
Read More Sunrise on OpportunityMy parents worked hard day and night to provide a good home for their children. They worked in the place of employment during the day and during the night they worked just as hard in their diligence around the home and in engaging with their children and their church family. In fact to some degree […]
Read More Learning About RestThere’s something that goes on with our thinking. We will keep going with something if we see the point in it and that point is far greater than anything that we go through to get there. Often, however, there are a number of issues that crop up that makes the point of persevering very hard […]
Read More Why Should You Keep Going?“Oh, I didn’t know that.” Back in the late 20th Century at that pivotal transitional stage of life when I was a child legally, but got the feeling I’m not the child I was, there were several sources of information: television news, radio news, newspapers and magazines, the local library, my parents and the friends […]
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