I have been watching .....

.... the late night TV feature on
LIVE 8


..... and find myself just weeping ......

Greetings from the European YMCA Training Centre in Litomysl in the Czech Republic .....



.... and the beautiful human Jana

Y XMAZ

Greetings from the YMCA in Romania

They Are the Most Precious

You yourself are the child you must learn to know,
rear,
and above all
enlighten.

To demand that others should provide you with answers
is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby.

There are insights
that can be born
only
of your own pain,

and they
are the most precious.

Seek in your child
the undiscovered part of yourself.

Janusz Korczak

Cat up the Chimney Crisis

The Wilson Christmas will be something like this ......... Christmas Eve will be the arrival of the Sheilas ........ for new readers - these two are Joy and Ann .... the children!
They will come laden with gifts and robes which will leave the three historic Kings in the shade .....

They will drop their disarray and it will remain like that for three nights and days ........ (but I tidy up when they go to bed at nights) ...... do I care? ........... what do you think ....

What did Adam say to his wife on this day?
"It is Christmas Eve"

Last year we were at Joys for the day and night and all went well until Zig tried to get up the chimney - see the pic ....... and Joy just caught his back legs before he disappeared!!!

We will be off to friends in the evening - drinks and edible blessings including the exchanging of presents and honest hugs and kisses ..... and onto the late night service which starts on the eve and ends on Christmas Day....... and so to bed..

Pancakes with crushed blueberries served with Champagne is the planned breakfast....... prepared by the AnnShe.
(phone calls - greetings - phone calls ...........)
The we will sit around the Christmas Tree and share presents - just the four of us.
Lunch will be the works. Joan is an artiste when it comes to food and she will paint the canvas prepared by the rest of us. The concluding brushstroke will be the home-made Christmas pudding ......

Later we will visit friends and play some fun games and have a few drinks and love it ....love it.

The following days will be visiting/receiving visits and catching a movie together 'King Kong' is the plan. Then, with more friends, a West End play called 'The Night of the Iguana' I believe.

In-between I will be completing my Selection Box, see below, and start to ship. I will also be blogging every day ...... reflecting on my soul (and indigestion) which will include my Favourites of the year - such as:-
My Favourite;
Web-site
Blog
Album
Single
Honest Human
TV Programme
Brand
Book
DJ
Club
Life changing moment
Journey
Feelings
Sporting hero
........ do you get it?

Soon - so soon ..... it will be back to work and refreshed to kick the darkness until it bleeds daylight .... .... .....

BEAUTIFUL
IMPERFECTION



.... I lurve this image ...... I lurve the concept and reality of human 'beautiful imperfection'.

It helps me to accept myself.

It helps me to accept others.

It helps me to be committed to development of me - and others
because it is a road to travel forever ........ a road less travelled.

*


Another chapter ........ I am listening to Sufjan Stevens and an album called 'white swans'.
Beautiful.
Sensitive.
gentle.
My mood.
Too tired to blog.
Long day today.
Commuted four hours under London Town today.
Thank you God and Pete Tong, BenjiB, Gilles Peterson, Sufjan .......... and the Guardian.
On the top of being away a chunk of days last week.
zzzzzzz

Feel I have not blogged today- but I was awake early today - and blogged early.

Christmas is coming and feel like I am on a helter skelter and there is no stopping the slide ..... and around the next bend I go ..... .....
I still have not come to terms with the season.
Love it
Hate it


I have humans on my mind who are full of Dread............ about this beautiful majestic birthday celebration .....
I want to tell you about them and name them but I cannot .......
But I can see their eyes - dead eyes ...........

You know ....... someone once said to me ..... "I am dead already"

Christmas
...... makes me nervous.

The Infinite
who came in a feeding trough
is not the kind of God I want.
He is too powerless for my liking.
Such a God is an embarrassment,
not just to the Herods of this world,
but to all who are enamored with themselves and their own potency.
I don’t want this God.
I have an inn to offer,
decorated for Christmas,
not a stinking stall.

God exists in weakness
and comes to those
who reach up to him with empty hands.

He is neither useful nor helpful.
He came and still comes,
not to solve our problems
or answer our questions
or fulfill our needs or bless our endeavors,
but to expose our problems,
to question our answers,
to be our need,
and to point us to his kingdom.

In Christ, God enters time
and space
to turn our world upside down
and inside out.
“Valleys are made high, mountains are laid low.”
We are left bewildered,
undone.

Charles Moore

Motion
Changes
Emotion

.... take one finger
point it
place that finger
on the blob
which
most
describes
how
you
are
feeling
NOW