2024 / May Numb All I want to do is be more like meThe Retune Blog – 3rd May 2024Saturday night we went to our first […] Read more
2024 / April Slow Train Coming There’s a slow train comin’ up around the bendThe Retune Blog – 26th April 2024Have you ever seen one of those programmes […] Read more
2024 / April Should I Stay or Should I Go? Should I stay, or should I go?The Retune Blog – 19th April 2024When asked about the meaning of the Clash’s hit Should […] Read more
2024 / April The Birdie Song How do you consider the lyrics of a song when it’s an instrumental?The Retune Blog – 12th April 2024If you grew up […] Read more
2024 / April Joy of nothing Dolce far nienteThe Retune Blog – 5th April 2024I’m currently taking a couple of weeks off (OK, offish as I’m still writing […] Read more
2024 / March The Sound of Silence Hello darkness, my old friendThe Retune Blog – 29th March 2024Some songs have become legendary in the stories that have arisen as […] Read more
2024 / March It ain’t what you do It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do itThe Retune Blog – 22nd March 2024A few weeks ago I […] Read more
2024 / March Power in the words The power in the words won’t go awayThe Retune Blog – 15th March 2024As a child were you ever told; sticks and […] Read more
2024 / March I will wait – Revisited Fix my eyesThe Retune Blog – 8th March 2024This Sunday is Mother’s Day and I’ll be speaking in church on the parable […] Read more
2024 / March Who are you? Who are you?The Retune Blog – 1st March 2024I took part in a poetry writing lesson a couple of weeks ago. It […] Read more
2019 / July 12 July 2019 4 mins 5 years 534 words 1 Tagged Blockheads, cheerfulness, Choices, Ian Dury, Reasons to be Cheerful Reasons to be cheerful (part 3) Choosing cheerfulness.
2019 / July 5 July 2019 4 mins 5 years 474 words 1 Tagged adversity, Andra Day, resilience, Rise Up I’ll rise up, and I’ll do it a thousand times again. Relational resilience in the face of adversity.
2019 / June 28 June 2019 4 mins 5 years 553 words 1 Tagged obsession, possession, Seasick Steve, Started out with nothin ‘Cause I started out with nothing and I’ve still got most of it left. Our obsession with possession
2019 / June 21 June 2019 4 mins 5 years 486 words 1 Tagged High Hopes, Pink Floyd, thoughts, wonder Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary The impact of the loss of the wonder of youth.
2019 / June 14 June 2019 4 mins 5 years 529 words 1 Tagged decisions, Living, Longpigs, Lost Myself And dressed for the occasion day after day Living life or waiting for it?
2019 / June 7 June 2019 4 mins 5 years 470 words 1 Tagged Blur, normal, special, Tracy Jacks I’d love to stay here and be normal, but it’s just so overrated. The importance of living our own idea of life.
2019 / May 31 May 2019 4 mins 5 years 468 words 1 Tagged Little Mix, responding, Wings, words Spread your wings my little butterfly Responding to hurtful words.
2019 / May 24 May 2019 3 mins 5 years 369 words 1 Tagged despair, emotions, Everybody Hurts, REM Everybody Hurts The commonanlity of despair.
2019 / May 17 May 2019 3 mins 5 years 435 words 1 Tagged Ellie Goulding, Lights, self-talk, voice Noises I play within my own head touch my skin How crippled are we by our own self-talk?
2019 / May 10 May 2019 4 mins 5 years 452 words 1 Tagged Distraction, Lull, Radiohead, stress, thinking Distracted by irrelevance? How does our thinking impact on our experience of stress?