As a painter/decorator, my day to day working life can get quite physical, enough for me to need every part of my body to be working as it should if I am to do a quality job properly and up to speed. In just a few months I’ll be 40 years old, and I’m pretty […]
When I was very young, I used to have a little pot belly on me, a bit like Pooh bear. In honesty, I have always enjoyed food, often found to be finishing up my sisters plates if they couldn’t eat it all, and almost always going back for seconds at primary school lunchtime (unless liver […]
Oh, what weak, stupid and wretched creatures we are! We prefer to drink from conveniently nearby yet broken and polluted cisterns to satiate our nagging thirst, rather than making the harder walk out into the desert and going directly to drink from that heavenly oasis, which harbours the very source of the purist, most delicious, […]
There was a point in my life during my mid 20’s where all that can be said about me was that I was totally reckless. I seemed to care nothing for my life in those days, which is so strange now for me to recall. I used to love pushing the boundaries and ‘testing’ the […]
Back in the days when I used to get stoned all the time (it seems like a lifetime away now), I used to suffer from terrible paranoia that left me totally impotent to lift a finger to communicate with, serve or entertain people around me at all. That would just be it; simply two drags […]
At mount Sinai, the Lord gave various commandments to Moses in order to establish with His chosen people what He considered evil or good, for before that time the ancient peoples of the world obviously often still perpetrated evil (hence the great flood), but they hadn’t any kind of law to measure their deeds against […]
Let me be honest about a fascinating revelation that I have observed under the sun. It seems that the fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. Also, the wise sometimes go hungry, and the brilliantly skillful are not necessarily wealthy; in fact, it’s often the opposite. […]