Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2005 | No Comments »
As this is pt one - here’s two albums you should own right now. Music will provide the light you cannot resist as REM have clearly stated, and music provides the backdrop to my life. So here’s a couple of albums that have been in my head this week.
First up the gorgeous Laura Veirs, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2005 | No Comments »
Well, it’s Friday night and I’m sitting in my friends house on baby sitting duties. Time for a little reflection on life and some much needed space at the end of a long week. Tiredness is something that is rarely recognised as an serious point of disscussion, after all most of the time we are [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2005 | No Comments »
slain by your zirconium smileI was slain by your olivine eyesslain, I was lying in pileshoping shovels would cast me furnaces burn everlastingblack tattoos of you onto mefurnacres burn everlasting black tattoos of you onto me
burn, brand my memoryblack a tattoo of youwash me with your mouthbrackish bright water from your eyesI’ll homing pigeon flyto [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2005 | No Comments »
Well it’s been a while, being away from a computer will do that for you, and then there was freshers week and tiredness and I could go on. But tonight I am feeling slightly inspired again. I’ve just been prayed for by a student who thought I could do with the encouragement. And I could. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2005 | No Comments »
One of the reasons for posting stuff on this blog is to bring whoever may pass this way in touch with stuff they otherwise might not have seen. I’m off again this week, work stuff calling me to Reading and London, in the meantime, enjoy these songs. The Rich Mullins one is one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2005 | No Comments »
A cup of tea, and a bathA little boy’s infectious laughRekindling friendships that have lapsedA difficult concept now I’ve graspedA cat that’s purring up at meA baby smiling up at meAfter war- there’s peace, I write a poem that brings release.
When your football teams at the top of the leagueA teachers handwriting you can [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2005 | No Comments »
“There’s more that rises in the morning than the sunMore that shines in the night, than just the moonThere’s more than just this fire here to keep me warmIn a shelter than is larger than this roomThere’s a loyalty that’s deeper than mere sentimentA music higher than the songs that I can singThe stuff of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2005 | No Comments »
5 Moments of just enjoying stuff.
1. Re watching Red Dwarf last night. Oh the teenage memories. 2. Talking to a friend from my old youth group last night. It had been a while. 3. Finding myself insanely dancing around my kitchen to the most cheesy rock ever written, I think it was Hall and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2005 | No Comments »
Sometime ago I heard a talk on the beatitudes (the bits in Matthew 5 about Blessed stuff- why are they called that?) and the bloke doing it gave us some of his rewrites getting at the meaning behind each one. They came out like this:
Well done to those who know they are broken and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 14, 2005 | 2 Comments »
A friend asked me once, what five words would I want to say to someone if I could only say five words. My words were: there is more than this.
If there were not more than this, if we were not holding out for something better, if there was no way home we would [...]
