Morning Pogue, This week I’ve been answering the question “Do you trust me?” in my head as it would relate to other people. I think I’m a pretty trusting soul and perhaps have a tendency to overlook the faults and failings of others. I’m also willing to disregard my history with the person to enable … Continue reading Monday Musing
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Code
SometimesYour beliefsYour integrityYour codeIs of greater valueThan the pressureThe gainThe popularityOf change SometimesAlways
Monday Musing
Morning Pogue, I’m feeling a little despondent this morning. I’ve just had a few days in Amsterdam and that may have added to my state of mind. I don’t know but listen. While I was there I came across the Embassy of the Free Mind, a library and an exhibit celebrating the free thinkers, heretics, … Continue reading Monday Musing
Monday Musings
Dear Pogue, Have you ever heard it said the we can lose a battle but still win the war? Indeed, some battles are just not worth the effort, believe me. And there’s the rub. It’s knowing when to fight and when to not that is the art. And it is an art because there are … Continue reading Monday Musings
Nothing
I want for nothingDespite what you tell meI know not hungerNor feel the coldMy clothes are adequateFor many occasionsI have choiceIndeed I am blessedAnd for pleasuresBooksCoffeeWineWith simple open conversationIn the eveningAs we count the stars
Monday Musing
Dear Pogue, Do you ever find yourself doing a thing you wouldn’t choose to do or even have considered doing because it’s good for someone else? You have become willing to inconvenience yourself to improve another’s situation. I’m thinking if you have been in that situation you are one of a small number of people … Continue reading Monday Musing
Monday Musing
Hi Pogue, I’ve spent some time reflecting on your question, “why do people behave as they do?” And I’ve arrived at the conclusion that you really need a psychologist to have any chance of a meaningful answer because people are strange entities. Whilst behaviours can be said to be predictable one can never make a … Continue reading Monday Musing
Monday Musing
Pogue, I know you don’t watch cricket but that isn’t going to stop me sharing an event from the current Test Series between England and Australia. It happened in the second Test. Bairstow was batting for England and facing an Australian fast bowler. When faced with a fast bowler the wicket keeper will stand well … Continue reading Monday Musing
Understanding
Pogue, I had a conversation earlier with a person who seemed to want my attention. The person launched into a triad of opinions on a situation that had occurred. For some moments it was standing watching a train pass. Then there was a pause. I mistook this for the invitation to respond. My bad! They’d … Continue reading Understanding
The Trees
The trees don’t care If I run through them stark nakedWith my arse all bareThe trees just smileWhen I continue walking all dayFor far too many a mileThe trees never mindWhen I hide in the woodsBecause the world’s so unkindThe trees share the breezeWhen my soul is undoneAnd I’m needing some easeThe trees are a … Continue reading The Trees
Monday Musing
Morning Pogue, As you know I used to do Krav Maga. I was never particularly good but I enjoyed it for the most part. Part of not being as good as one would like to be meant that on numerous occasions I would find myself seated on the floor, a ringing in my ears and … Continue reading Monday Musing
A Better Future
Pogue, Hi, I’m back after a month off. In honesty I found myself with nothing meaningful to say and, throughly believing if you can’t add something of worth to the conversation you should keep quiet, I withdrew. In reflection a month on the road in Nepal and Bhutan, whilst labelled a holiday by most, took … Continue reading A Better Future
The perfect blossom is a rare thing.
Dear Pogue, Have you ever thought that certain artist get to present their art over and over, such as a musician? They write a great song and people call out to hear it played at concerts. The artist enjoys the achievement again and again, as they should. But other artist don’t get to share that … Continue reading The perfect blossom is a rare thing.
My Tribe
Tell your story. Shout it. Write it. Whisper it if you have to. But tell it. Some won't understand it. Some will outright reject it. But many will thank you for it. And then the mostmagical thing will happen. One by one, voices will start whispering, 'Me, too.'And your tribe will gather. And you will … Continue reading My Tribe
Monday Musing
Morning Pogue, I’ve had a week off from writing letters because, well, I just hadn’t got enough thoughts stored away to commit anything meaningful to paper. Sometimes the well runs dry and I need a place of silence to replenish myself. Know that one? Anyway, you asked me a question and my mind has been … Continue reading Monday Musing
This is the Poem
This is the poem that changed the world,This is the poem that made men thinkAnd questioned all they could possibly do,These are the words that laid bare the truthThen the truth did what only it doesAnd the cracks began to appearMaking wise men smile for the time has come,When all will be laid bareAnd all … Continue reading This is the Poem
Tears On The Street
There have been more than 200 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are injured or killed. Their figures include shootings that happen in homes and in public places BBC NEWS 9TH MAY … Continue reading Tears On The Street
Monday Musing
Hi Pogue, Another letter of home thoughts from abroad. I’m still on the road and moving through Bhutan, a country that is a complete contrast to it’s close neighbour Nepal. There is a sense of serenity and order with none of the apparent signs of being underdeveloped or the overt poverty that I had witnessed … Continue reading Monday Musing
This day…
Well Pogue, If I told the roads in Nepal weren’t the best I’d be cutting the roads some slack. Honest. We had a seven hour car journey yesterday back to Kathmandu. In England, three hours, tops. It eventually took fifteen hours. Now we were travelling on the main road to Kathmandu but having gone, maybe, … Continue reading This day…
Monday Musing…on a Tuesday 😳
Morning Pogue, I’ve been off the grid doing a trek in the Himalayas. Just a small trek but I was really away from the world and it was nice. Whilst trekking we visited a number of mountain settlements and observed the way the people live. They still cook over open fires, collect water from a … Continue reading Monday Musing…on a Tuesday 😳
Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Hi Pogue, So I’ve been reminded of an old song over the last few days as I’ve wandered around Kathmandu city, especially near the sites with religious significance. It’s something I’ve been loosely aware of at various place when I’m at home but here it’s made me think. It’s the abject poverty that is apparent … Continue reading Songs To Pogue…What I’m Listening To Now
Monday Musing
Dear Pogue, I have a story to tell you today to start the week. You up for that? Good. So there’s this guy who’s a farmer and he grows apples. They’re good apples and they sell OK. Then one day while he’s out walking he passes a neighbouring farm and looking over the fence he … Continue reading Monday Musing
Oranges aren’t the only fruit.
I was sitting in the dentist waiting room this morning when a young lady came in. It soon became apparent that her first language was not English as she tried to explain to the receptionist that she had made an appointment. Fine, except the dentist’s server was not working, no records or information could be … Continue reading Oranges aren’t the only fruit.
Monday Musing
Morning Pogue, I watched a TV series recently where the premises was a group of British agents controlled a programme which gave them access to a reset button. When the world reached a catastrophic event, usually a nuclear event, and the end of the world as we know it was hustling in, the reset button … Continue reading Monday Musing
I wrote a poem
So Pogue, I wrote a poem this week and I received an unexpected response. Two people asked, one directly and one indirectly, “Was that about me?”. Such vanity I’m thinking! First let me deal with the questions. No, it was not about you so, rest easy and know you both are still in my good … Continue reading I wrote a poem
I Just Dropped By
I just dropped by to sayFuck You!I’ve been meaning to do soFor quite a whileAnd because you know I’m not given to swearI hope you’ll feel the passionI hope you’ll know you’ve gone too farWay beyond the boundsAnd me?I grow in strength day by day,I’ve seen a better world,I’m practicing colouringBetween the lines,So my world … Continue reading I Just Dropped By
Monday Musing
Dear Pogue, I’ve been doing a lot of reading and thinking around mental health in the last two weeks. I introduced the subject in a previous Musing when I made mention of the evidence now supporting the effects of Social Media on teenagers over the last 10 years. This is now a well researched subject … Continue reading Monday Musing
Saviours
I was slow to learnBut I’m thinking I am not alone,And when I came to knowIt was like, EYES WIDE OPEN!How did I miss that one?What just happened?I was so blind sidedFor in that momentI came to know that savioursTravel incognitoNot minding they go unrecognisedNor seeking glory and adoring praise,Rather quietly doing what they must … Continue reading Saviours
Monday Musing
Monday Pogue, Another week begins full of adventures. Well, as you are aware, I like to read and often pick up random books and articles. I think you’d say my tastes are eclectic and this week I found myself reading an article from a child psychologist who wanted to say that by the age of … Continue reading Monday Musing
A Bird
There’s a bird I watch from my windowShe comes day after daySoaring on the up draughtsBorn of stormy windsNever fluttering a wingEasyQueen of the skyNot a care or concern can be seenAnd as Lawrence wrote “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself A small bird drop frozen dead from a bough without ever … Continue reading A Bird
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