It's not where we've come from that matters,
but where we are now
and where we are heading
(or hoping and trying to reach).
Saturday, 29 February 2020
Thursday, 20 February 2020
About charity being said to begin at home
Maybe charity does begin at home
but it shouldn't end there.
but it shouldn't end there.
About spite
A week or so ago, I heard some news, which I recounted gleefully to my friend as 'gossip'. It aroused secretly spiteful thoughts in my head which I acknowledged, even at the time, as shameful.
I genuinely regretted my thoughts, even though they could be said to be 'only human' and not long afterwards this phrase popped into my head.
Spite despoils the spiteful.
I hope to be able to keep this thought in mind!
I genuinely regretted my thoughts, even though they could be said to be 'only human' and not long afterwards this phrase popped into my head.
Spite despoils the spiteful.
I hope to be able to keep this thought in mind!
Monday, 2 December 2019
About loving Montalbano
(This post was written in the summer of 2017 and has resided in draft ever since, thus seriously outdated!! However, should these series be repeated and you missed them the first time, I'd say the comments below still hold true!!)
Oh how could you not!!
If you haven't tried two hours of Sicilian landscape, Italian subtitles (which you soon forget you're reading) and wonderful characters with amazingly musical names, which roll off your tongue like poetry, you really don't know what you're missing.
Oh how could you not!!
If you haven't tried two hours of Sicilian landscape, Italian subtitles (which you soon forget you're reading) and wonderful characters with amazingly musical names, which roll off your tongue like poetry, you really don't know what you're missing.
Monday, 25 November 2019
About texting to absent family and freinds
It's lovely to be able to say,
You're never more than a text away.
That is, of course, as long as our mobiles are charged
and we both have a signal!!
You're never more than a text away.
That is, of course, as long as our mobiles are charged
and we both have a signal!!
Sunday, 24 November 2019
About texting and the abuse and misuse of gifts
The greater the gift, the greater the capacity
for the abuse or the misuse of the gift.
For example, what a wondrous miracle is texting. I heard not long after the appearance of mobile phones that it was a chance development which came from the engineers wanting to communicate with each other.
It is so useful in sending brief (or, sometimes, even long) messages where a conversation is not an option or would take much longer Like countless groups of families and friends, we have great pleasure with our family WhatsApp groups, sharing photos, jokes and the like.
But oh, we hear of so many terrible consequences of its misuse and abuse.
Let us all take responsibility for our own use of life's gifts and do all we can to educate and guide the young and vulnerable with whom we have contact in how to do the same.
for the abuse or the misuse of the gift.
For example, what a wondrous miracle is texting. I heard not long after the appearance of mobile phones that it was a chance development which came from the engineers wanting to communicate with each other.
It is so useful in sending brief (or, sometimes, even long) messages where a conversation is not an option or would take much longer Like countless groups of families and friends, we have great pleasure with our family WhatsApp groups, sharing photos, jokes and the like.
But oh, we hear of so many terrible consequences of its misuse and abuse.
Let us all take responsibility for our own use of life's gifts and do all we can to educate and guide the young and vulnerable with whom we have contact in how to do the same.
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