Category: words
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inadequate prayers
Those who know me at all will know that it is rare that words fail me. But the shooting at Sandy Hook School, Newtown, Connecticut, left me speechless. I wanted to express outrage at what had happened, despair at how helpless I felt, pain and grief for the families who had been bereaved, but all…
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dum dum daaaah
Well, that moment you have been dreading has finally arrived. No, not the moment when you have to write all your Christmas cards, or even dragging the tree and decorations down from the loft. It’s the moment when I resume blogging on a more frequent basis than recently. Amazingly I have actually had complaints, and…
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in the end are the words
I was glad I was not there. I would have disgraced myself with sniggers, snorts and perhaps even full-blown laughter. It was an important meeting making important decisions. The meeting seemed to be moving towards agreement when a lady who might be described as ‘traditionally built’ (see No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) stood up. “I have…
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beyond profound
Do you ever wish you could say something really profound? Something so astonishingly significant that it gets retweeted, forwarded on Facebook and becomes an internet phenomenon? I’d like to do that just once. I don’t think it’s eg0-driven. It’s more the excitement of being the originator of something that resonates with lots of other people.…
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words wonderful words
Words are wonderful: rearranging sounds, letters and syllables enables us to communicate with one another. Thoughtful use of the arrangements enables us to communicate clearly with one another. Yesterday on a friends Facebook status I noticed this: “It’s -10C here in Stuttgart and I just passed a teenage boy walking down the street eating an…
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new words
Hi – very busy again today so only a quick bloggage: New words for 21st century living, based on observing some young people today: Twalking – texting while walking Twumping – bumping into someone while texting while walking. Oh for a camera! How often do we walk around so focused on ourselves that we fail…
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Acronymity
An email correspondence with a couple of friends yesterday (thanks Steve and Graeme) got me thinking about acronyms. One of the bizarrest I came across a while ago was an acronym that young people in a Baptist Church had come up with for the Deacons (servant leaders) of their church: Very Old Men In Thought!…
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Cântă laudă, cântă laudă *
On Sunday we are nabbing an idea that came from my lovely friends Matt and Juls Hollidge (visit their excellent Kore website!!). They were the worship leaders for the Baptist World Youth Conference in Leipzig, as well as at the youth programme at the Baptist World Congress in Birmingham UK, not Alabama). They had the…
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5… er… 10,000
Sometime over the weekend it happened. One of you probably did it but have not confessed. Was it you? Astonishingly someone made my hit counter on the blog tick over to 10,000 hits! My flabber has never been so ghasted! It seems incredible to me that people have thought it might be worth paying 10,000…
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palindromes
Another sign that I am getting older. I was sure I was 45 until a friend wished me a happy palindromic birthday. Took me a while to work out that 2011 – 1967 = 44. D’oh! Campus motto: Bottoms up Mac Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena,…
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