Sign Of Age
I know I’m getting old. I can feel it in my bones and I can tell by the increasing number of grey hairs I find.
But the final straw came yesterday. It snowed in Milton Keynes, quite heavily at times, and for the first time in ages it settled. My first urge was not to go an build a snowman, or have a snowball fight, or ambush random strangers with snowballs…
…no, my first urge was to “have a nice walk”.
What’s worse is that I acted on the urge. At least I took my camera with me and got some great shots.
I’m not long for this world. I’m off to make a will and get my things in order…
Stop Opening Presents and Just Listen
Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.
Harlan Miller
When a group of professional people asked a group of 4-to-8-year olds, ‘What does love mean?’ one replied, ‘Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and just listen.’
Warren McLaren
Merry Christmas!
I have a confession to make: I’m addicted to buying t-shirts from Threadless. This won’t come as a surprise to my friends and colleagues, but I felt it was worth sharing with my [two] readers ;o)
Some of the t-shirt designs are simply bizarre, some reflect elements of my faith, others are just selected because I like the colours or the design. I’ve found the excellent t-shirt designs to be fantastic conversation starters. Mostly people believe the t-shirt I’m wearing is a reflection of my current mood – mostly when I’m wearing this one.
I haven’t yet used one of my t-shirts as a prop for a youth work talk, but I have a couple of ideas percolating…
I’ve added a page which features all the Threadless t-shirts I have purchased, and I’ll do my best to keep it updated when the addiction kicks in again. Meanwhile, here are some of my current favourites:
