the waiting country

was your mother's number and now you've made it yours, but not by choice or design - too early and far too soon. (for Mam)

We met under a shower of bird-notes. Fifty years passed, love's moment in a world in servitude to time. She ...

Just wanted to say what a great thing Spotify is - ok, so the free version means you get a 15-second or so advert now & again (roughly o...

Commenting on the form that is the Gospel (of Mark, in this case), Eugene Peterson makes these observations: "Gospel story" is a v...

For years, all I knew of The Waterboys was the monumental Whole Of The Moon and that they employed a big music sound. Things move on. Peop...

I've held back a little from this one but it had to come at some point. Yoko Ono's   Walking On Thin Ice  is an achievement that it ...

no part of my life has been lived without you; separation is not isolation nor dislocation. always present in time, always, in the breathed ...

i wonder if the way was opened for you to go back to when you were a young girl, with all that lay ahead, would you take the offer with both...

This track shares its title with the opener to Neil Young's Comes A Time , even down to the aspostrophe in Goin', but this is the e...

I think I remember Terence Trent D'Arby arriving on the chart scene back in the late 80's (purely for the record: I was working in ...

After referencing Johnny Cash's American Recordings (previous post), we're moving on to another slice of Americana in the form of La...

Of course, this could be sung by any of a whole host of people but I'm plumping for the version by Johnny Cash on his American IV: The ...

Blondie's Heart of Glass is one of those songs that makes you so thankful that radio was invented - you may not have it in your collect...

Make a rule that you will read X number of books you currently own before buying another one. Set a "read-to-purchase ratio". This...

For the past 11 years nearly I have worked with a PC on (actually, under) my desk. It has been an enormous boon in so many ways - initially,...

This is the first of a series of posts, in conjunction with a similar list by The Badger . But I promise I won't mention any Yes tracks....

There are so many good things about Marva Dawn's book. Her writing is deeply theological and profoundly practical. As someone who has an...

Losing God is a great read. Matt Rogers walks his readers through the doubts and depression that once filled his life with darkness with re...

Well, here we are - no voting shenanigans like Strictly Come Dancing ; this is purely one person's choice. And a choice one at that it i...

For many years this would have come top of my list - maybe it's a sign of age. My nomination for second-best xmas song ever is Happy Xma...