Stories from July, August & September 2017

July

1. How big are our fears really?

2. Whatever our politics let’s meet in a field and be people together

3. Do you have a Martha?

4. Happy 4th July evening!

5. Without a vision, the people perish

6. Why are we more afraid of our light than our darkness?

7. What does a discarded coffee cup say?

8. How to keep the lights on when the meter runs out

9. Should I stay or should I go?

10. What faces you in the dentist’s chair?

11. The boys who built the bonfire

12. The Twelfth of July reminds me that I am a Northern Irish Protestant, just in case I forgot…

13. It is in the unknown places that we discover who we are

14. Change is not always good, the day I decided to toughen up

15. Whatever I said it was her response I remember

16. Openness difficult as it can be is a precursor to change

17. What shows up in the mirror of a close relationship?

18. The birth of a child can lead to our own rebirth

19. Think hard and find that unassuming character who changed how you see the world!

20. Seeking until I fall

21. How was your day? Let me tell ya.

22. How do you respond to, “Let’s go shopping?”

23. A moment of beauty can open up another world

24. A candle for Charlie will bring to light the plight of other babies

25. Standoff in Oxford between city’s cleansing team and the Pavement Poet

26. Has my life changed due to Facebook? Has yours?

27. Can a book reflect your cultural traits?

28. She has her vodka, I have my broken biscuits

29. How you tip may tell more about you than the service!

30. Breaking Good!

31. A life has begun, a shadow is cast now what’s the story?

August

1. A yellow highlight

2. I said to my mechanic, “You are like a priest.”

3. The moment your kid becomes almost your equal

4. “I want to play Fish and Shark.”

5. What would your bumper sticker say?

6. How a gravestone of a child who died in 1869 helps give me a sense of place

7. Life the great storyteller tells us a new story about two men, one called Bolt and the other Gatlin

8. If you can dream it you can do it

9. It’s only a car, is it?

10. Can’t find your heart? Look at what you spend your money on

11. Delivery room, Airport arrivals; all about birth and rebirth

12. “You returned a dirty car!” Car Rental with Sixt in Catalunya

13. Wherever you are we are united by the day we are now in!

14. Christmas can wait Mary is still enjoying the summer

15. Download — Love or Fear — which do you chose?

16. In the ordinary, the extraordinary can happen…

17. Have you lost something?

18. Is writing a form of drag that allows us to express our deepest self?

19. Was it a coincidence that Joseph’s coat was of many colours?

20. Even in difficult situations what you believe has power

21. What would you get out of bed for?

22. I have two chairs, one for you and one for someone who mattered in your life

23. Whatever we do there is a purpose in it

24. Hey Cat shed that coat there’s a butterfly waiting to get out!

25. Do you ever stop the car to take a photo?

26. An unexpected discovery

27. Reading though not as you know it!

28. A crisis can cause a crack that lets us out!

29. I am happy to be here!

30. Do not speak, unless it improves on silence.

31. How would you feel if your most embarrassing photos were published on Medium?

32. As I write a creative force awakens within me and takes me on a journey with words

33. Stories of hope must be stories of hope for us all

September

1. Are those words speaking to me?

2. “Diana, she was a messenger like Jesus.”

3. Not going away is saying more than I first thought!

4. Life says, “ Come on the next day is here!”

5. “I don’t like people touching me”

6. Tell me the best moments of your life…

7. Tell me a time when you just did it!

8. Tell me , what was the playground of your childhood?

9. Tell me a time when you were so surprised that the moment has never left you.

10. Tell me what you are passionate about?

11. Let your feet speak!

12. For as long as conkers fall to the ground the world is as it should be

13. This photo is a quick test on whether you are a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

14. Value the flowers in your life for one day they will be taken and placed in heaven’s meadow

15. The positive past is always alive to the present

16. The pitch is high, the emotion angry and the words naked

17. The tiger also runs after things

18. Silence with children or without?

19. The story behind the photo

20. “Come fly with me!”

21. A meal 1976

22. Births, deaths, marriages bring with them stories to be told

23. Number 52

24. We are here to be touched and to touch

25. The power of a painting

26. A touch that never leaves you

27. I ran to the sound of the drums

28. Scars tell a story but which one?

29. When others share their light when yours is dimming

30. Where do you find the still, small voice?

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