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(Looking For The Space) Where Imagination And Reality Meet
Christianity’s Struggle For New Beginnings
I’m reading a book with this title (above) by John Philip Newell. The book has many insights into the struggle that we have to remain faithful to Christ’s call to follow in his footsteps. One part struck me today – where he recounts a dream that he had. He dreamt that he was running for…
Songs For The ‘Recording Booth’
So, I go to a couple of songwriting circles. Once a month, we each are invited to bring a song that we are working on. We go round the circle and sing our songs, and listen to the feedback. The groups are a joy to be a part of. One of the group suggested a…
A Song For Ivan
Anew song from the last couple of weeks. It came from a guitar riff. I wasn’t sure of it would have words. But as the days went on and I played the simple chord sequence over and over again, some words came – the first line. After that, I think it more or less wrote…
Just Listen To Your Heart
I had some notes in the notebook where I keep scraps of lyrics. I’m not sure if they really fit together, but I have the music all sorted and it might be a song. You never know. I had the chorus somewhere in my notes – I couldn’t remember where it came from … The…
The Difference A Word Makes
I am still mystified, angered, frustrated, horrified. That intelligent people will not, and for some reason think that they cannot, name it for what it is. So what is that word? What is that word that once used can change things ? That word is genocide. And I am, as I say, mystified as to…
Today Is A Quiet Day
This is a companion poem to the Holy Saturday Poem that I posted a while ago. The new, companion poem is partly inspired by a TV programme called The Pitt. (Spoiler Alert). It’s set in the emergency ward of a hospital in Pittsburgh. This particular scene concerns an elderly man who is dying. His daughter…
Donal Trump Said He Was …
Donald Trump said he was “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he again threatened to destroy Iran’s bridges and power plants if Tehran did not meet his deadline of Tuesday 8pm ET (midnight Tuesday GMT) to reopen the strait of Hormuz. “You know what’s a war crime? Having a nuclear weapon,” he…
A Turn Around The Sun
This might be the last one today. This is a song I wrote after reading an amazing book ‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers Briefly, the book introduces you to several characters in successive chapters. For each character, trees are significant in their lives. The characters come together in the second half of the book, but…
Breaking Bread Around The Table
This is another song from the last year or so. I had a riff on the guitar, and pretty much the tune for a whole song, but no words. It’s interesting because the song changes speed from slowish to fast within each verse, and then goes back to the slower speed for the beginning of…
I Am On A Roll
I haven’t posted for so long, but I just have a backlog of songs that need to be out there somewhere. The band I am in did a gig back in February, and the same weekend I did a gig with my wife and tried out some of my newer songs. This is one of…
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