L’chaim

‘It’s a strange pathology don’t you think,’ I say, ‘to want to be something other than who you are?’ Wynstan leans forward, places a hand on mine. He has seen my need and he will never shame me for showing it to him....

A Christmas with cracks in it

Christmas again, I am not a big fan of yuletide celebrations, many people dread this time of year. I am trying to approach my own family Christmas plans with grace. I won’t quite manage to conjure amazing grace but I am aiming for some sort of good enough grace....

Don’t quote me…

I get quotation overdose, I love a good quote but I also get sick of what becomes a deluge of words intended to inspire. Too many quotes are posted printed and repeated. Quotations narrow our focus to a particular thought or premise, maybe it is my fuzzy focus that...

Are we there yet?

Am I there yet? I am not sure I even know where it was I was going, let alone if I am there. My previous post was number 300. According to Wikepedia 300 has some special proprieties: ” It is a triangular number and the sum of a pair of twin primes (149 + 151),...

Learn people better, Dream good, Stay glad

Woody Guthrie was an American folk singer, most renowned for his songs penned and sung during the Great Depression. New Years Rulins were found in one of his journals and dated January 31st 1942. I’m adopting many of Woody’s resolutions as my own, so many...