Bits, Bobs and A Geek's Life

Recovering bookworm, (somewhat) talkative introvert, armchair Liverpool FC fan, corrosion and materials engineer, lost son, Nigerian.

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Do You Remember… David Dunn and Jordan Feliz cover Jarryd James' Do You Remember?. #StumbledUpon

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Of Things Around My Neck

Of Things Around My Neck

It was with a mixture perhaps of Joy – Zadie Smith might disagree – and most certainly relief that I read the final lines of Kelly Sundberg’s It Will Look Like a Sunset, turned the page and realised I had finally finished reading my copy of The Best American Essays for 2015. It – the niggle at the back of my mind constantly reminding me I was yet to complete any of the books I’d started this…

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Matthew West – Mended -- When you see broken beyond repair I see healing beyond belief When you see too far gone I see one step away from home #Mended

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(Trusting) God's Design In Detours

(Trusting) God’s Design In Detours

From today’s John Piper Devo:

Have you ever wondered what God is doing while you are looking in the wrong place for something you lost and needed very badly? He knows exactly where it is, and he is letting you look in the wrong place….

And your agonizing, unplanned detour is not a waste — not if you look to the Lord for his unexpected work, and do what you must do in his name (Colossians 3:17).…

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Speak to me…. -- Make Your wisdom clear The words I hold so dear Bring the light into my dark I hide them inside my heart #Sleepless

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Always Returning [Source] Whilst rustling through my documents at the weekend - I forget what prompted the decision to take on the Sisyphean task of rummaging through drawers filled with several years' worth of papers of varying vintage - it struck me that it was now…

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Did We Do Any Learning - Savouring Memories

A few thoughts – with the benefit of a few months since losing H – on living and learning… Life’s lessons are neither bleeding obvious nor palatable. All we possess for sure are the moments that we share with our friends and loved ones. The challenge is to enjoy and maximise the moments, not putting off the kind word, the lingering touch, or the act of kindness we know they deserve. More on the…

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The Life of a Lost Son...

The Life of a Lost Son…

Edit: This is me venting… Nothing personal.. Just vexed by the way certain things have panned out.. I fear that soon all I will have as memories of my Africa will be the melancholic bits interspersed with a few shards here and there of a nostalgic past – growing up, friends, family, schools, holidays and times spent in wanton play – occasional successes mired in a morass of resounding failure. I…

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#WakingUp

Quick plug for the3six5NG which returns on the 1st of June…

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Times, Seasons and A Hundred Juggled Things..

New Post: Times, Seasons and A Hundred Juggled Things #Reflections

It feels like a trick of time, a sleight of hand drawn from the very top tier of a Houdini play book, but the facts – borne out by the calendar I have open in front of me, and the worn pages in the notebook I bought a couple of months ago – tell a different story; a record, as stark as it is of just how much time has passed in 2016 already. Back when I set out to reflect on 2015 and how it had…

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In Conversation...

In Conversation…

Quick plug for my radio debut, in conversation with @1Life_Saved and @HibbardSam about his new-ish single “In The Waiting” and God, Music and doing life (amongst other things)..

Show goes out at 2000hrs GMT today (13/03). Listen in on TuneIn or via our Online Radio Player. You can also browse our archives here.

#Debut

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Dear Future Me

Dear Future Me #100DaysOfBeing #Poetry

For Mag 308:

07.03.2016 1:05pm Dear Future Me, I wanted to tell you that whatever happens tonight- on the corner of L and Ninth; you will survive.

That this too, this sense Of worry wrapping itself like a wreath around your wind pipe will pass, whether lost in the exhilaration of assent; or obliterated in the loud clang of a cataclysmic bang.

That this sense of free fall, of uncertainty gnawing…

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On Repeat – God’s Favor – Donald Lawrence Hold On, Be Strong... God's got the final say #OnRepeat

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Lessons Learned...

Lessons Learned - A Year End Review of Sorts #2015 #Life #BeginAgain

A Year of Lessons Learned – some at great cost – in no particular order:

Doubts not dealt with at inception are unlikely to go away of their own accord, they are more likely to fester and then lead to a cataclysmic event;

It is almost never ever about you alone, people can (and probably will) get hurt by the fallout of your (in)decisions;

The health, quality and colour of the grass across the…

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The Writer Is....

The Writer Is….

…Neither saint nor Tzadik nor prophet standing at the gate; he’s just another sinner who has somewhat sharper awareness and uses slightly more precise language to describe inconceivable reality of our world. He doesn’t invent a single feeling or thought – all of them existed long before him… He’s here, at our side, buried up to his neck in mud and filth.

The Seven Good Years: A Memoir, Etgar Keret

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Coming Up For Air...

Coming Up For Air…

It has been that sort of month since I was last here, the sort where the only possible response once the worst of it has passed is one of navel gazing self congratulation at having survived. Between two trips offshore – to the middle of nowhere, a sore foot which required a pitstop at A&E and busyness multiplied exponentially, the past three weeks have sped by like a blur. My continuum? 12 hour…

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A Good Year of Sorts - A Playlist #LifeInASong #Resets -- The continuum - loss, numbness, turmoil, (self induced) heartbreak, surrender and (finally) finding a peace of sorts.. Here's to Beginning, Again...