My very good friend and I visited a furniture store here in Stoke-on-Trent. Brilliant community scheme, it’s called Emmaus Potteries Furniture Mine. A lovely place that I enjoyed walking around. I think it was my friend who suggested we walk in and take a look. Window shopping is not one of my pastimes and furniture […]
Read More Round The TableLife is never meant to be easy. Rich or poor, black or white, old or young, whatever your condition in life, this is not designed to be easy. There is plenty to keep it from being easy. Why add to that? Why complicate matters further by adding on the hassle you already have? I’m not […]
Read More Why Take On The Hassle?What is the key behind a good performance? Whether it is play shown at the theatre, a film shown at the cinema or a programme/series shown on whatever viewing device you wish to use, our eyes take in a performance. We see, we hear and thus consume an experience that is designed to stimulate a […]
Read More The Making Of A Superb ShowTimes must change and so do we. The nights are a good indicator. The days seemed to go on forever. From the dawn to the dusk was hours and hours of relentless light. It was such the norm that the days and weeks that elapsed made the whole time appear like a very long. So […]
Read More About The Season’s EndThere was this programme on. OK, by saying that, I remember back in the 20th Century it was literally the case that because of the limited options on offer, it really would be the case that there would be this programme on. There wouldn’t be any doubt about that programme, you would know what the […]
Read More About The AdulationThere are those gung-ho types. They decide to do something. They have that steely determination. They just get on with it and go boldly into it. There’s a lot to admire about those types of people. Having been in their company for a number of years, I have been really impressed by that capacity in […]
Read More About Tentative First StepsLife will not go well as a solo venture. It might appear to go well. There might be accolades and achievements to reflect the solo venture, it might even lift up the spirits recalling the barriers overcome. Yet the fact that we are the product of a social engagement and our arrival on the planet […]
Read More About Who You Can Work WithThere is real vulnerability in understanding someone else’s point of view. Vulnerable because there’s an element of leaving what is comfortable to you, to enter into something that is far more comfortable for someone else. That probably explains why in some conversations it’s easier to ‘connect’ with what someone is saying by talking about what’s […]
Read More About An UnderstandingYou will never know until you ask. My firstborn daughter and I were having a conversation. During that conversation she asked some questions. When she heard the answers, she asked some more questions. when she heard those answers she asked some more questions. Then she stopped, because she felt she was irritating me with the […]
Read More About Asking QuestionsThere are times when it is good to ask questions. Those questions can vary in depth, but when certain things crop up, certain circumstances appear to conspire, it appears as if everything is up in the air. Nothing is grounded. Nothing is as safe as it was. In times like that, it might appear comforting […]
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