Petrafied Journal – 2020-03-09 Sometimes you get it wrong not because you don’t know but because you’re working in the dark. Sometimes you just have to laugh for if you don’t you could curl up and die and where would you be then? Eh! Sometimes, they say, all you need to do, is remember that there’s a light switch somewhere, that will render all your seemingly ‘real shadows’ … gone! Knowing that the light is there, and a will to…
I can see why I just plain ordinary run away from life in fear of being hurt! I’m afraid to engage lest that should make it worse! I was sent away to boarding school as a boy for being too much trouble and my every decision since, has been shaped by that. There are other defining moments in my life like the time I stood up to ‘those bullies’ in school’. I would prefer that they might have been the…
For now, my pen has gone a little dry In Truth, I’m petrified to tell you why So while you’re waiting, here’s a map of Europe and it’s member states ID’d It’s not what you want I’m sure, but it’s surely what you need! And of course, a link that tells you more Just click here amigo to start your reading chore 🙂
What is money anyway? We all use it and we all depend on it and we all talk incessantly about it but which one of us actually understands what it is? We forever make statements like “That’s all very well but who’s going to pay for it?” We are completely consumed by its ‘lob-sided power’. Money differentiates us. We like that! And so, we should! Or at least we should in a healthy competitive, sporting sort of a way! Just…
COVID19 will be defeated because everybody is pulling together in an unprecedented time! Except for “The Banks”, it would seem! We bailed them out of a 64B Euro hole ten years ago but now they want to charge interest on stalled mortgage payments during this pandemic! Are they blind? Can they not see that real money is the power of people pulling together! Or do they just choose mean-hearted-money over people every time? Everybody is pulling together to ‘flatten the…
This blog is ostensibly a blog about what it’s like to have been a ‘crossdresser’ all my life! I hate the term ‘crossdresser’ of course! It suggests something is wrong but more on that later. This is one man’s story about the ‘why’ and the ‘what’ of it all and how it has, quite frankly, consumed and defined me! But it’s more than that too. I hope? I love life with all its ‘ups and downs’. I want to live…
I just read a What’s App text outlining Bill Gates’s views on COVID19. It captivated me. I was inspired to make this short video commenting on the 14 ‘heart-lifting’ points he makes. Obviously COVID19 is a foe rather than a friend but nonetheless, does it have a message for us? One that might help us, as a friend might, despite the havoc it’s wreaking? I hope you enjoy watching my video and get as much from the content as I…
A good ‘old’ friend passed this verse to me yesterday, saying it helped them hugely to get through a difficult time in their life. It was a selfless gift given to ease my troubles during this COVID19 lockdown! I found it to be deeply soothing. I am very grateful for how caring people are towards one another during this surreal time! Just for Today Just for today, I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle my…
The whole world is being threatened by an invisible enemy! Our personal health is at risk and many of us may die. At the time of writing, 400,450 people have been infected worldwide and 17,451 are dead. Here’s a link to Worldometer that shows statistics for the world over for a range of subjects which would be fascinating in themselves if not overshadowed by the Corona Virus. When it’s referred to as COVID19 the CO stands for Corona, the VI…
Last month, I made a promise that I would launch this ‘Petrafied’ blog on March 24th, 2020, the 52nd anniversary of the day my Dad died. And … “A Promise is A Promise“ So … If you’re reading this I have launched already which means its too late to save me! 🙂 They say, the memory of some things, like the day someone special in your life dies, never leaves you. Some say you get over it but others believe…