Stories from October, November & December 2017

October

1. The Hot drink

2. Children ask their questions

3. Autumn came to visit

4. The Morning dancer

5. Do you remember seeing your first peacock?

6. The butter that will never melt

7. How do you make something more beautiful? Break it!

8. The power of an experience to wash away again the dirt of prejudice

9. Be open to the stranger

10. The fountain never changes but we do

11. Often the beauty is in the beholder and not in the beholden

12. Empty

13. Keeping the faith

14. It is their story not ours

15. Napo Probation conference — the morning after

16. A street bench, strangers sharing communion

17. Look to the sky and see the oneness of the sun even if it changes colour

18. Let’s face it!

19. Need a quiet place to rest

20. Can you hear the still, small voice?

21. 17-year-old self puts in an appearance amidst trains, people, gin and tonic

22. Perhaps like trees next year we will be stronger!

23. God is like sex, s/he has to be experienced

24. What are the gaps in our lives? Mind them!

25. Weird? Maybe! Wonderful? Of course!

26. I don’t want to cook but will I?

27. If we want the best we gotta demand it!

28. The secret to being human: We are turned on and off

29. Tell me what breathes inside of you?

30. “What does simple mean?” asks Harry

31. What do we have? Apart from stress?

November

1. What time is it Mr Fox?

2. Where is love when we are faced with hate?

3. Share a memorable experience that comes to mind when you sit in the familiar

4. A station like a photo can capture the best of life

5. November, a month to be remembered

6. Inside these four walls

7. Choose a decade of your life and tell me the person you were?

8. What did the day bring?

9. In the face of great hate, love’s power is available, the choice is ours.

10. If you were to launch a campaign what would it be?

11. The worst day, best day?

12. “Excuse me. We will be having a minute silence at 11.”

13. Days will still be born no matter how long the night lasts

14. Uncomfortable moments

15. Boxes with labels and Boxes with no labels

16. Wednesday 15th November 2017

17. Does walking on the graves offend the dead or the religious?

18. Just call me Mehal!

19. “Hi I am Andrew, yes my dad’s the head.”

20. I am but the wind caught in a shirt hanging on the washing line

21. The next train will take you to where your imagination wants to go!

22. What would you do in public that might be noticed?

23. Today, give thanks

24. Coming home at Thanksgiving

25. Drinking tea and catching up

26. The Mountains call out

27. The sun shines in Eggerstown

28. This is Freedom. What is freedom?

29. A sign that the end is coming

30. Two Christmas trees are like two friends

December

1. How’s your day been?

2. A half-baked ghost story

3. My life summed up by a pair of shoes

4. Words are things that sometimes are enough.

5. There is pain amongst the commuters of the morning hour.

6. What was the kerfuffle in Brussels on Monday about?

7. Trust life to bring us to the place we should be!

8. Even the pubs want to sparkle at Christmas

9. 3 EU presidents and Donald

10. I surrender

11. Snow Sunday

12. Snoring

13. Snow, trains, abandonment

14. What to do with worries

15. The music carries me to a place beyond my fears

16. We all need endings

17. Making all things good

18. Stand fearlessly in the power of desolation

19. While they say, “You can’t” I am

20. In the light, only the dark spots show

21. Cheer someone this Christmas send a card!

22. If we do not believe we will not achieve.

23. “We are on the bridge”

24. “Well as it is Christmas”

25. Christmas magic does not take much, a window, a room, a fire and darkness.

26. Love came down at Christmas and it is still here!

27. Christmas day with Greta Garbo and The Lonely City

28. Boxing day 2017

29. The Twilight Zone (between Christmas and New Year)

30. The sun will rise and so will we!

31. If someone was to clear away your stuff what genius would they find?

32. Dream it while you sleep, live it while awake

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