Remember Joy

Is happiness really the priority, are we really suppose dot be doing everything we can to be happy? I’m not so sure. What I am sure about, is that life is far too short to take everything so overly serious. You think about your marriage, you think about your job, you think about the money, […]

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Dealing With the Stretch of Life

It’s good to stretch yourself. That’s not something I was always comfortable with. My preference back in the day was always to look for the path of least resistance. Certain things came easier to me than others, so I would tend to stay doing those things that came easier to me. That plan seemed to […]

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To Be Clear

My wife and I have three daughters in the house – still children. The youngest of whom is not in double figures yet in terms of her age. Those daughters are blessed with an incredibly expressive and animated mother. They also live with a father who is very much keen on speaking properly. Often their […]

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You Have A Problem With Order?

Someone suggested to me that it’s good to have an order, it’s good to know the order and it’s good to keep the order. It got me thinking … Every so often my family enjoys ordering food to eat that’s delivered to the home. As it has become a family thing, everyone is more or […]

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Solid Line of Defence

When things are secured, that can give confidence. Apparently there was a time when people would be able to leave their doors unlocked and folks felt safe. Times changed and there was the need to put in safety measures. Now if those are in place, there is a sense that there is security, safety and […]

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Forces at Work

It gets to me as well. An event happens, it’s presented in a way that arouses a strong reaction. It’s emotional and passionate. Words effortlessly come to the fore to describe the reaction. It’s only later on in conversation with wiser people that I stop to reflect on that reaction. There is the chance to […]

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Light of Life

So much darkness. So much stumbling around. All leading to the same outcome. No matter how sophisticated the look is in the stumbling, it’s still stumbling. No matter how brave and heroic, daring and dashing the stumbling, it’s still stumbling. It becomes the definition of existence, how well you do with the stumbling. Some get […]

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Prepared for Action

Bond would be interrupted from a romantic interlude because of a message that it was important to see M. At the meeting point Bond would be given the mission by M and then as he would go out on the field, he would inevitably come across Q. Here Bond would be equipped with the pertinent […]

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Fly Away

What a wonderful thing the mind is. There are certain settings you can find yourself in where external circumstances can be disturbing. If your mind dwells on those circumstances and then begins to process it, you can find yourself in some bad places. This is what makes the mind so fascinating. There is the capacity […]

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