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Seek

“Seek and you will find” has to be one of the most hammered to death sayings trotted out by people the world around.  Well that’s great.  I need another bit of ethereal advice like I need my finger nails pulled out.  So what does it mean?  This is what it means to me…

Seeking, by definition, [...]

How great thou art.

I climbed into bed this evening and for some strange reason began thinking about a hymn Elvis Presley sang in the late 1960’s entitled “How Great Thou Art” (originally written by Carl Boberg); it was on one of his albums my parents were fond of listening to when I was a boy .

I always thought that song [...]

Wax on, wax off…

It seems the reality of work has replaced the comparatively dream-like state of being on holidays.  Waxing philosophocal after a day at work seems infinitely harder.  Ergo, the blog suffers!

So, as I have not had as much time to think about the things going on around me I might use this blog as opportunity to [...]

Apology apologetics

A friend once told me that I need to stop saying “sorry” all the time.  ”Sorry, I am late.”, “Sorry – I was in your way.”, “Sorry for saying sorry too much.”.  Well, I am a fan of the word sorry.  I don’t mean the kind of “sorry” that binds itself to sarcasm either; you know, “Hey man, [...]

“O momentary grace…”

Shakespeare was a pretty flash playwright and poet that graced the theatres of the 17th century with his particular skill. One of his most quoted lines is that from Hamlet; “To be, or not to be; that is the question.”

Perhaps a little less well known is another arty line from one of Shakespeares first plays, [...]