That Was The Week – Beginning 20 October 2025
Returning to Medium this week it seems only right that I kick off by writing a post like this. I have now submitted my final writing project at university, so I can either sit and drum my fingers for a month or two, or thereabouts, or I can just get on with normal life, such […]
Finishing University Course – And returning to Medium
Poking my head back above the parapet again. My university project is now submitted, and so now, on that front, I simply have to wait to hear from them to see whether my work is worthy of their MA award – or not. Thus, apologies for absence, and now, I am aiming to be here […]
AI or Not? – Diplomacy preferred
This post is a response to a post in the Medium blog about AI. My thoughts are that AI is here to stay, whether you like it or not, whether you regulate it or not, whether people are honest about their use of it or not. You can rant, rave, demonstrate, jump up and down, […]
How The Light Gets Lost – And becomes extinguished forever
those of us who still claimto be somewhat humanwould like to complainto those of you who nowhave left humanity behind please don’t dim the lightsyou are better than thatfor once like everyone elseyou shone your light for allnow human rights are rationed and with each actionin disregard of anotheryour light fadesyour gift to us allis […]
That Was The Week – Beginning 7 April 2025
I had a slow start to the week due to sleep issues for the first couple of days, but that soon changed, once I had caught-up on some decent sleep. I progressed into the week by exploring the merits of stylus writing on ‘Nebo’ and ‘OneNote’, the outcome of which was to decide that each […]
Things I Cared About – With tongue in cheek
Love. I cared about love. It came in many forms from many different kinds of people. I gave as much as I could manage. Breath. Yours or mine, or ours together, knowing we get to see another day. Mouthwash is good. Imbalance. Not everything has to be the same. Imperfection, too. It seems I have […]
Identity – Fifth poem of the self
never really belongedto anything or so Ithought wrongly whenit was pointed-out to meFamily First Forever then but more too likeScottish cultural heritageminority characteristicsdon’t need to be out andabout to know how near and I like being Britishdespite some awful historyand some terrible politicaldecisions taken to bringus all to task and obey global citizen toowith desire […]
Spirit – Fourth poem of the self
brought-up Catholicextensive damage wroughtknee jerk atheist reactionbut slower considerationbrings better tranquillity new learning to respectother people’s beliefswhatever they may beand exploring what mightjust work for me as well still trying to make peacewith myself as much aswith the rest of the worlddeity not possible for meexcept that found in others peace acceptanceforgiveness resilienceawareness responsibilityother people […]
Learning – Third poem of the self
I decided that schoolwas not a place to learnand I made a mess ofevery part of my selfthat mattered to me still scraped throughuniversity still an optionscraped through that tooand for many years survivedin the only way I knew how graft and grind was the waypunched more holes in my healthtried to ignore health and […]
Engagement – Second poem of the self
looked at the worldand got involvedoutward vision tobe of service to otherstook a bit of learning a lot of learningfor relationshipsexploration andfalling off the edgeof the known world remembered how to playwithout needing to knowwhy any of us do whatwe just do anywayor so I believed then chose my friends makinglots of mistakes on that […]