I’m very aware of the do what you love philosophy and in fact more than a decade ago I picked up a book called Do What You Love And The Money Will Follow which was convincing but not really written well enough to keep me reading to the end. The problem is that most people [...]

Morning thought . . . . . I seek not to rest my soul in you but to know you resting in my soul and so knowing be at rest

From an old journal;

How come something as surreal and apparently pointless as twenty two men chasing a spherical leather object filled with air around a field desperately trying to place it in a net can make me feel like it actually means something? But it does even though I really don’t want it to.

I close my eyes, lie back, and drift into a state of semiconsciousness as the music taunts me into having to confront the fact that the first time I was charmed by this melody was almost forty years ago. How can this be? It is just as fresh and I feel just as new to [...]

Today is the anniversary of the birthday of French Philosopher (and more) Michel Foucault (15.10.26 – 25.06.84) which prompted a bit of nonsense in my head; A philosophical man once said I would like to get into my head when he finally did he confronted his id and spent the rest of his days in [...]

I hear voices from time to time . . . . do not rage against the darkness there is ecstasy and understanding to discover by waiting bravely for a while and if you do so – trembling with vision and knowing – you must then believe in what you discover about who and what you [...]

Talking to a friend over a coffee and we touch on the subject of paradox. Research has shown that those wishing to give up an addiction who have a strong determination very often fail. It’s the ones who have no resolve or sense of determination that paradoxically are the ones who make it. It’s when [...]

Cold carp spiraling beneath the dark waters of my self-belief drawn ever further in the drowning darkness menacing they murmur through broken teeth words like shards of glass compound my grief wishfully I wonder will there ever be relief?

Today is the anniversary of my Dad’s birth. I say that rather than his birthday because sadly he died in 1999. So, today I think of my Dad. He was a good man. I am posting a piece of writing that is from my journal. It describes the day I heard he was dying and [...]