Yesterday I received a WhatsApp message from a friend in Galway, Ireland informing me that a good friend had passed from this world. I was reminded of the story of Moses when he was a baby, for his safety, he was placed in a basket among the bull rushes…

In 2006 I was in the throes of parenthood, Ciara would have been aged 6. I am beginning to think I missed a few things one of which was the film, ‘Starter for 10’. I caught up 17 years later thanks to BBC iplayer. Starter for 10 (film) - Wikipedia Starter for 10 is a 2006 British comedy-drama film directed by Tom Vaughan from a screenplay by David Nicholls, adapted…en.wikipedia.org The film features a lot of…

In the place where you are born, you are raised in the way of those who cared for you and the community in which you live. You are given a name, a language, an accent and a place, “You are the child of …….” When you grow older you may…

“Now when Jesus saw a great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.” Matthew Chapter 8 v 18 I heard an interview with Hilary Mantel the other week in which she spoke of being inside the mind of Thomas Cromwell when she wrote Wolf Hall…

I watched Beautiful Boy yesterday evening. The title is lifted from the words of the father of the ‘Beautiful Boy. The film is based on David Sheff’s bestselling memoir “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction”. Steve Carell who plays David Sheff…

I was reading the Bulletin from the Krishnamurti Foundation “And we are responsible for whatever happens in the field of this consciousness. That is, if I am violent, I am adding violence to this consciousness common to all of us. If I am not violent, not adding to it, I…

Over the Christmas period, I came across The Marginalian. It seems at this time each year something such as this falls my way. Maybe it is because I have slowed down, I like to think it is a gift from Christmas. The Marginalian Jeanne Villepreux-Power (September 24, 1794-January 25, 1871) was eleven when her mother died. Just before her…www.themarginalian.org I was just scrolling through when I came across…

Is it easier to make friends in youth than in middle age? — Dear M Elliott, I hope now that we have been reacquainted that you know that your kindness and indeed your interactions with me as a teenager left quite a deposit. It has been as life continued that I realise, simply by being you, you taught me a lot. Now I…

The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto / 642 Things to write/prompt 6 — Coolness is not a word I associate with myself. If anything I associate it with others. So if I was cool it was in the company of those I thought cool. Whenever I think of an age I…