Marked Out To Fit In

Perhaps you have received some communication that marks you out. Joe was the spoilt one. Spoilt because he was from Daddy’s favourite. Daddy had a few mothers you see, but there was the first love, the one he had worked for a long time to gain his hand. Though the other mothers had given him […]

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If You Love The Caller

Means of communication. They’re quite something these days. Send a tweet. Post a photo on Insta. Do whatever it is you’re meant to do on Snapchat (I leave that to my daughters). There’s still sending an email or connecting via video message. I hear there are still people who send letter through the post. As […]

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Talk Is Rich

One of the saddest things anyone can tell me is that talk is cheap. I know where they’re coming from. They have the emotional scars to prove it, so I don’t dispute that experience. It’s a sad thing to hear, because talk at it’s best is designed to be enriching, not cheap at all. In […]

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Sharing: A Conversation Piece

It’s a skill. It’s a gift. It’s something wonderful to experience. You just have to give some people the slightest opportunity and they will get to chatting for ages. They will talk and talk and talk and talk and it’s a great effort for them to finally reach the end of what they’re saying. Then […]

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Taking The Hints

Some people just don’t get the hint. The way the hints are dropped are sometimes subtle. Yet when it’s not received the first few times, it is made a lot more clearer. Clearer to the point that you have to actively work hard to go against what is obviously being said. There was this guy […]

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As The Story Goes …

“That’s not how the story goes, Daddy. Tell them what happened. Tell them the story for real, Daddy.” It was one of those occasions where I couldn’t quite muster up the energy to go through the situation as I had done on umpteen occasions previously. I had delivered a half-hearted and somewhat pathetic recounting of […]

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