Month: February 2025

Over coffee this morning at 7 am I listened to a talk by a preacher with an unfamiliar name on Trans World Radio. This fine preacher was talking about his time as a child and saying that he was the third child and his mother on discovering she was pregnant did not want him and must have sent this message to the vulnerable soul who started life with a feeling of zero self-worth. He tried to get...

Deep down most of us want to do good rather than do harm. On the other hand let's look at the term do gooder. A do-gooder is a person who tries to help others, but in a way that some may consider annoying or impractical. The term is often used in a disapproving way. There may be mixed motives. In my wanderings on the Internet I found a chap called Jim Haynes who to put it mildly lead a colourful...

Greetings everybody - I normally get my inspiration for what I'm going to write on a particular day in the morning but today, strangely, nothing came so I decided to devote myself to fiddling around in the garden, preparing the lunch, watching another excellent Richard Vobes video, wondering if my garden tools were going to make it through another year. I know I'm 80 years of age but gardening...