Please, I beg you to consider your careless disregard of the rules of polite grammar. In a normal conversation when sharing one’s views, go easy on the 1st person plural. Use the 1st person singular, keep it personal; don’t involve me in moral quandaries until you invite me in. Then you can throw [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Personal’
25 Jun
Slightly Homoerotic?
I am currently reading Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy - and it has solidified something in my mind that I have often thought and never discussed much:
The miles of difference between sitting at a stadium rock gig and being in the mosh pit at the front.
They are two distinct experiences. I can [...]
8 Jun
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton has amused me for years. On reading “The Architecture of Happiness” I am reminded why – he is an intellectual explorer, maintaining a childlike inquisitiveness about life that I appreciate in him and in myself when time stands still enough for me to remember.
In short his excuse for discussing architecture [...]
25 Mar
On the Death of a Relative
She was never “involved” with Jesus. I use that phrase “involved” to avoid the pantheon of evangelical cliches that describe someone as “saved”. She couldn’t stand the botheration of whatever Gospel gunners turned up at her nursing home to run the Sunday service. She wasn’t always polite about it. That’s not [...]
23 Mar
Problems
Over the past week I managed to slow my life down to a near halt by a combination of accident and illness. My accident was banjaxing my laptop hard drive by setting a mini aerial on it which happened to have a magnet on its bottom. I felt an adhesive thunk which indicated [...]
15 Mar
As a father of two little girls
This : Real Live Preacher – The Seventh Sister breaks my heart. Thank you RLP for doing what you do best, augmenting the ordinary and letting my heart grieve for things not yet to be grieved over but that remind me how much I love my girls.
And the Pleiades have always been a favourite [...]
4 Mar
Hunger for Expression
What is that constant urge to express oneself? Where did it come from? Didn’t Maslov call it the need for self-actualization in his hierarchy of needs? On re-reading these it might well be that expressing oneself is actually more to do with gathering self esteem and nods of approval from like minded wits and intelligences. [...]
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