Stories from April, May, and June 2017

I am nearing 1000 stories. This has prompted me to try and make them easier to access without having to scroll down 994.

Here is the second lot from April to June 2017. In reviewing them I realised I wrote every day for a year starting in April, g

April 2017

1. Sad or sentimental

2. Do we fight against sameness?

3. Meeting with Eva Schloss Holocaust survivor and stepsister to Anne Frank

4. “I know what its like to be a refugee”

5. Please remind me of my purpose?

6. Will my response lead to greater happiness or less?

7. How do you deal with difficult conversations?

8. What does silence do for you?

9. What do we hear in silence?

10. Is it time to encourage, say sorry or stop the clock?

11. You know that sound when you hit a pillar?

12. Do we get back what we give?

13. How often do you use the library?

14. Good Friday, Love passed on from one life to the next

15. If everyone had one tattoo what would yours say?

16. A fulfilled life means an empty tomb

17. Finding forgiveness in disregarding rubbish

18. Life, Public, Private which do we prefer?

19. What is better, to be moved by the heart or the head?

20. Whether Britain is tidy or not I will learn to be content.

21. What do we need, to be who we are?

22. To see a garden in a teabag

23. If you were sawed in two what would it reveal?

24. So what did you have for dinner today?

25. Today the circus came to town

26. Breaking stereotypes shared living

27. A Different class — a review

28. The secret of being content

29. Easily excited or an eyebrow raiser?

The sharp-eyed will be thinking there are 30 days in April so where is the 30th story? Well, it was not so much a story as a request, as below.

30. Jennifer Marie Gady here’s my loving eyes / UK

May 2017

1. My relationships with written words

2. The film Lion inspires hope against all odds

3. When office blocks become flats

4. Don’t mix religion with politics — a voting experience

5. For what we are about to receive

6. In the car, I can go crazy not in a concert hall

7. Is it ok to be alone?

8. A small wish fulfilled

9. If there is a God what type of world should it be?

10. Seeing through others’ eyes

11. An Indian meal with geography, politics, and history while you wait

12. Could knowing that you matter be enough?

13. If life has two parts in which in one you are extrovert and in the other introvert which part are…

14. Pulling the plug on my Snow globe

15. Flat living and laughing out loud

16. “A little birdie told me…..”

17. Do the places we live, reflect something of who we are?

18. You’ll be missed, will you?

19. Thank Crunchie it’s Friday

20. Writing creates an invisibility in a world that wants to see

21. Walking with strangers

22. As you leave the supermarket the anti-theft buzzer goes off , how do you react?

23. May they be comforted — Manchester attack

24. Books I have never read but tell a story

25. “Suddenly we reach the centre.”

26. Someone says, “I don’t want to live anymore” how do you respond?

27. Love at first sight or the first sight is love?

28. Jumping into the arms of life

29. Blackbird has spoken

30. How to know what you hate and what you love

Again I am not sure what happened in May as there is one story short!

June 2017

1. It is our purpose to give away what we have

2. Georgie says, “Make love nor war.”

3. What will they say after you have left?

4. Is our politics an expression of our spirit?

5. Where do we bring our fears, our hate when terror attacks? London / Manchester

6. Watching the rain, the pain from inside

7. Finish your fight, the tea is nearly ready.

8. We deposit something of ourselves in others by our stories

9. Will Theresa May be resigning as UK prime minister in the morning?

10. Post Brexit, Post Scottish Independence, Post UKIP — UK election results

11. As room at the table is made for us, we in turn, make room for others

12. Laws are for the head, stories are for the heart

13. Then the moment came, it was fast, it was furious, it was electrifying, it was like nothing else…

14. Let the spontaneity of life spring upon and surprise us

15. When there are no words there is silence/ London Fire

16. “With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”

17. A burnt out Grenfell Tower becomes a symbol of class division

18. Where there are people grieving there are people to administer love

19. Have I told you about my Godfather?

20. To show the better way even if we lose

21. A thought, a photo that gives you heart…

22. A photo that tells a transformative story

23. Faithful are the wounds of a friend

24. What one thing is worth troubling ourselves?

25. Avoiding Fish and clouds of darkness

26. Do we jump in or remain on the shore?

27. The love of a child

28. When going out for a meal can mean so much more

29. Danger of Death — KEEP OUT

30 Trust writing to reveal the heart…..

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