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Getting it Wrong
Yesterday afternoon we enjoyed Silhouette Stage School’s summer show. We saw the results of creative choreography and patient teaching as, after weeks of practice, the children performed exceptionally well. When a group of youngsters are performing a dance, you notice the one that makes a slight mistake not those who perform perfectly! It doesn’t matter,…
The Old Man (revisited)
Last week we heard ‘The Old Man’ sung at a funeral. It’s been on my mind ever since. It’s written by Irish song writer Phil Coulter – best known for pop success in the 1960s writing such songs as ‘Puppet on a String’ and ‘Congratulations’. He wrote ‘The Old Man’ in 1982 after his father…
Am I Capable?
Returned from our Irish holiday yesterday we came through security. They scanned and looked in our bags. A woman scanned my lap-top. I asked her what she was scanning it for. She told me she was checking for explosives. I smiled. It seemed ludicrous. Later I read of Erich Fromm, the German-American humanist philosopher who…
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