All stories from January 2017 to the end of April 2023 — Click in the boxes below and it should bring you to each quarter of the year. Each quarter will bring you to each month, each month each day a story was written. Stories from 2017 gordiejackson.medium.com Stories from 2018 All of my Medium stories from 2018gordiejackson.medium.com Stories from 2019 All my stories from 2019 in one placegordiejackson.medium.com

Celebrating 4 years on Medium — It will soon be 4 years since I started writing on Medium. I was in before there was a subscription and initially Medium promoted my stories which probably explains the higher ratings up until 2018. I still write but I don’t pay a subscription which means my stories are free…

Reaching a place of acceptance — I often look out the bedroom window and I am reminded by the posts, preventing any car parking, of the last battle. That was between us, the residents, and the other freeholder who owns the land which was the car park. After the Secretary of State rejected his appeal to…

You know that FB post that appears every so often? It goes something like this, “I want to see which of my friends actually read my posts so if you have read it let me know by saying how we met” Well I decided to do it from the other…

Words used: Apophatic, Cataphatic, Ineffable — A Friend stood and spoke of their experience of explaining Quakers to ‘Churches Together’. I was trying to manage Zoom so I only caught certain phrases, I heard something about God being ineffable. …

Luton Irish Forum screen the film ‘Philomena’ with the actual Philomena present — I had noticed, as you do, an advert on my Facebook account. It stated the headline above. I knew about the film although I hadn’t realised it was released in 2013 now 10 years on. It was being hosted in Luton, a nearby town. I had heard that Philomena lived…

Thoughts on the passing of a comrade — I heard the other week that Les had passed on, we celebrated his life on Thursday. Friendships operate at different levels and sometimes relate to the ‘place’ we find ourselves. If I go with ‘place’, we met at the Luton Probation Programmes Unit. The year was 1996 the month was…

Stories from April 2023 — You alright? Should you wish to catch up on April’s stories? And I always think a story is not complete until it has a response from the reader! g 1. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Films of Marvel Comic characters are not my first choice. Well, Spiderman was when I was 6 but I seem to have grown out…gordiejackson.medium.com 2. Holy Week at the Cathedral St Albans Cathedral 3042023gordiejackson.medium.com

I got up at 5 30 am and moved the thermostat to get some heat. I am sure it is not usually this cold in May. I went back to bed and when I rose again it was 08 45 am. Long time since I got up so late! That…