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Clippy Exclusive!

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: Interview a Fictional Character An Exclusive Interview with Clippy, who in 2007 quietly retired after ten years service as Microsoft’s Office Assistant. He helped many a PC novice write a letter. Interviewer: Thank you for coming out of retirement to talk with us, Clippy. Your sudden retirement seemed rather abrupt. Are youContinue reading “Clippy Exclusive!”

Life Commandments

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is your favorite quote and why? This pretty much sums up my approach to life. It’s simple but not simplistic. If I filter it through the recurring four-gospel cycle championed by Alexander John Shaia, it involves engagement with times of enduring world-shattering change, persisting through pain and struggle, exalting the beautyContinue reading “Life Commandments”

Those who have gone before

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: If you could, what year would you time travel to and why? I’d set the dial in the Time Machine for somewhere in the 1880s and visit an ancestor, a much published bishop in the Church of England, John Charles Ryle. I’d sit in his study in Liverpool anticipating all the topicsContinue reading “Those who have gone before”

Mystery of the Spheres

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: Write About Something Mysterious “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” Albert Einstein The physician and the artist beheld one the other;Each a sage, each a well-learnèd brother –Might they oppose and withContinue reading “Mystery of the Spheres”

Heart Language

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What book is next on your reading list? There are many vying for attention, but I’ll tell you about the one I’ve just started reading and that was alluded to yesterday – Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience. I had a book giftContinue reading “Heart Language”

My strength is made perfect in weakness

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is a Superpower You Wish You Had? It seems one is doomed to push back on these prompts. A lot of us don’t realise the “superpower” we already possess. My brief brush with martial arts as a teenager left me with one life lesson (and a gammy ankle!) “Do not resistContinue reading “My strength is made perfect in weakness”

Reflection triggered by “that” deportation

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is a cause you’re passionate about and why? News just broke of his deportationTennis can’t save his mixed reputationOz immigration brooks no mitigationOutrage and sorrow split more than this nation. Yet refugees linger long through the years Detained indefinitely for fleeing their fearsSplit from family, self, friends and their peersAll butContinue reading “Reflection triggered by “that” deportation”

Claim your authority… when authentic!

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is a life lesson everyone can benefit from learning? Gingerly I laid out my clinical caseInvolving some conflict I refused to faceMy mentor stood up, tall and intense,Determined to inject me with some good common sense. “Who is your bishop?” he demanded to know.“We have none – we are our own,”Continue reading “Claim your authority… when authentic!”

Public Freaking vs Public Speaking

#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: A Challenge You Faced and Overcame Pimpled and bespectacled, I stood before the class“One minute speech,” he said, “if you expect to pass.”Butterflies a-flutter, my propensity to stutter,Prevented speech, for only nonsense I could splutter. “Sit down, Ryle,” he commanded with disdain,“Another turn will come, if marks you wish to gain.”Red-faced andContinue reading “Public Freaking vs Public Speaking”