Eskişehir, Türkiye Thursday 18 April 2024 (continued) I get up in the evenin’And I ain’t got nothin’ to sayI come home in the mornin’I go to bed feelin’ the same wayI ain’t nothin’ but tiredMan, I’m just tired and bored with myselfHey there, baby, I could use just a little help You can’t start a… Continue reading The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets
Tag: motivation
Out of the Shadows
Landschlacht, Switzerland, 2 February 2017 Sometimes inspiration flows like sap through a maple tree. Sometimes it is as slow-moving as molasses in January. Those who read this blog (both of them!) or follow me on Facebook (the rest of their families!) are aware that I work…a lot. Between working as an English teacher during the… Continue reading Out of the Shadows
Hope for the hopeless: Brave new world
It has been suggested that when one writes a blog and hopes to attract attention to it, one should show how reading that blog will benefit the reader and not just the writer. I have, for one person without a fortune, a fairly large library, that has expanded from what I could carry on my… Continue reading Hope for the hopeless: Brave new world
Pieces of flair
I was asked the other day by Roger, a Starbucks partner and shift manager, what was my favourite film, and I must confess the suddenness of the question had caught me off-guard, especially as it is so difficult to narrow down just one title from the many movies I have seen and enjoyed and in… Continue reading Pieces of flair