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you mean funny like a clown, i'm here to amuse YOU? funny how, what the F*** is so funny about ME!

Geoffrey, there is nothing funny about you at all. You are an articulate, sensitive soul. You make me laugh (in a warm way), your paintings inspire, you are a battler. I told you once I liked you, I still do. That paragraph I wrote was written in anger. My sanity has been at an outer edge for so long now. I have been tested brutally by Life. Been pushed, been pressed by His hand. Like a piece of plasticine. I've seen some horrible stuff, been in some ghastly places. Some days are shocking. I've been angry for ages about the general contents of this forum. Like I told Cate, I want Revolution. With a piece of art like 'The Future' I figured this place would be brimming with folk daring, dying for Revolution. Alas, it is not and I clearly see that now. The paragraph I wrote was penned in frustration more than anything. The frustration that I must leave this cosy nook and venture on to more fertile pasture. I was angry, Geoffrey. Really pissed. You are a popular, well liked person here. Forgive me and my wildness for dirtying your name and your person. I can understand you guys just mucking around, just to play in each other's company, let off steam. Unfortunately, I am not so able at it. I have this fucking 27 year old burden that rarely gives me a minute's, if a second's rest. I am sorry Geoffrey, really. I can be a bully. And you are a good man. Adam

>Geoffrey, there is nothing funny about you at all. You are an articulate, sensitive soul. You make me laugh (in a warm way), your paintings inspire, you are a battler. I told you once I liked you, I still do.

dear adam. please may i offer sincere apologies for a delay in responding to this wonderfully candid message. sometimes circumstances cause me to fail even the most elementary rules of courteousness.

>That paragraph I wrote was written in anger. My sanity has been at an outer edge for so long now. I have been tested brutally by Life. Been pushed, been pressed by His hand. Like a piece of plasticine. I've seen some horrible stuff, been in some ghastly places. Some days are shocking.

i understand, and have empathy - fate does not like a collar and leash. some of us leave nothing behind but a short skidmark leading over a cliff. we must learn to wear parachutes on our backs.

>I've been angry for ages about the general contents of this forum. Like I told Cate, I want Revolution. With a piece of art like 'The Future' I figured this place would be brimming with folk daring, dying for Revolution. Alas, it is not and I clearly see that now. The paragraph I wrote was penned in frustration more than anything. The frustration that I must leave this cosy nook and venture on to more fertile pasture. I was angry, Geoffrey. Really pissed.

well, it is true these primitives are a passive tribe, adam - apathy is a common affliction amongst numbskulls. yet it does allow those of us with more than half a brain to easily gain control and tower over them. remember, in the land of the blind the one-eyed is king. a thinking person is a beautiful peacock in a yard full of rats.

>You are a popular, well liked person here. Forgive me and my wildness for dirtying your name and your person. I can understand you guys just mucking around, just to play in each other's company, let off steam. Unfortunately, I am not so able at it. I have this fucking 27 year old burden that rarely gives me a minute's, if a second's rest.

am not sure i agree with you concerning my popularity. sheep need a shepherd, but that doesn't mean they like him. the common people will watch almost anything broadcast on television, whether they like it or not.

>I am sorry Geoffrey, really. I can be a bully. And you are a good man. Adam

it's good to see you active here again. judging from the number of 'hits' it appears your contributions are well-received
-g

Geoffrey, I can barely read Hebrew. Although my three older brothers did a bar mitzvah, I did not. There are specific prayers for Shabbat. I don't follow them. When I was a boy, before my father left, he would sometimes come in to our rooms at bedtime and go to each child and whisper the Shema. I memorised this beautiful prayer, still remember his voice. On Friday nights my Mum and I celebrate Shabbat, the Sabbath. Mum says a prayer over two candles and I say the Shema. It goes something like this:

Sh'ma Yis'ra'eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

http://youtu.be/vzO0BZkclTA

Good Shabbos to you, mate.

Boss wrote:Geoffrey, I can barely read Hebrew. Although my three older brothers did a bar mitzvah, I did not. There are specific prayers for Shabbat. I don't follow them. When I was a boy, before my father left, he would sometimes come in to our rooms at bedtime and go to each child and whisper the Shema. I memorised this beautiful prayer, still remember his voice. On Friday nights my Mum and I celebrate Shabbat, the Sabbath. Mum says a prayer over two candles and I say the Shema. It goes something like this:

Sh'ma Yis'ra'eil Adonai Eloheinu Adonai echad.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

http://youtu.be/vzO0BZkclTA

Good Shabbos to you, mate.

it seems you have been blessed with a very spiritual background. not everybody has such lovely memories. i have just clicked on the link you provided, and my evening has been enriched by this totally beautiful piece of music. thank you so much.

I've had some holy moments, brother.
I'd be dead four times without my mother.

It's a beautiful song. I'm in the car waiting for Mum. She's at the hairdresser. In fact this song made me cry very deeply just then. I don't cry too often, but while today I was in pain, I kinda felt liberated. So much.

Good weekend,
Adz

Boss wrote:I've had some holy moments, brother.
I'd be dead four times without my mother.

It's a beautiful song. I'm in the car waiting for Mum. She's at the hairdresser. In fact this song made me cry very deeply just then. I don't cry too often, but while today I was in pain, I kinda felt liberated. So much.

Good weekend,
Adz

my mother had a 'perm' every 14 days the hairdresser's. i could never understand why it was called that.

You know you got me stumped, g. Why do they call it that? Don't you just love the difference between women and men? All the peculiarities on both sides. Awesome.

I'm in the car 2 hours since my last post. Mum's in an electrical store sorting out a blender - she needs it to mash her food.

Tell me about your Mum, g.

Yes, Geoffrey/Adam you two have a lot in common. Sharing the Jewish faith is a lovely bond.


I can well understand why your mother, Glenda, uses a blender to give herself a perm, before she goes on a bender.


Some years ago a pretentious Git came here, introduced herself modestly, and submitted a most beautiful poem. Geoffrey, who is the Captain of this Forum, made it quite clear that such rudery stand for we will not.


When I can't sleep at night, pre tournament, my Yoga teacher says I should count Shemas


There is an old Biblical saying, "God is everywhere yet nowhere, look within ones own self before casting the first stoned , he shall become last forever".

Boss wrote:Tell me about your Mum, g.

well, it's the story of the ugly duckling in reverse, adam. she started as a happy young fawn and ended up a miserable old cow.

Geoffrey wrote:

Boss wrote:Tell me about your Mum, g.

well, it's the story of the ugly duckling in reverse, adam. she started as a happy young fawn and ended up a miserable old cow.

xx

Sue, don't think you understand, I have been last forever.
By the way I have a couple of shirts in dire need of a damn good iron. Could you, sweetie?

Geoffrey, I am sorry. I really hope your Dad was okay.

The sun is truly down here. I'm in the car waiting for Mum in the doctor's - will this day end? I have Hatikvah on repeat on my I-phone and so I wish you Miss and you kind Sir a very hearty Shabbos.

Adam

Boss wrote:Geoffrey, I am sorry. I really hope your Dad was okay.

he was a great guy, when he wasn't balls-deep in some cheap tart or burglaring the local village hall.

Geoffrey wrote:

Boss wrote:Geoffrey, I am sorry. I really hope your Dad was okay.

he was a great guy, when he wasn't balls-deep in some cheap tart or burglaring the local village hall.

Geoffrey behave!
By the way was your father ever in Berkshire?
xx

Karren B wrote:was your father ever in Berkshire?

if it had hair around it, he was in there. xx