(XVI): Sadness in the Socialist Distant New Abnormal
My heart is a wee bit heavy tonight this grey Tuesday night in the wet North Coast. But just for tonight. Tomorrow is a new day. But not gonna lie. […]
Sunday Scribe: Rediscovering Bone Broth
Let’s talk about bone broth. (Not the kind of article you were perhaps expecting, but variety is the spice of life and all that). As I continue to recover from […]
December Beckons…
A YEAR AGO, I was in Warsaw, Poland, for what I had no idea was about to become a very, very significant trip, indirectly, into new scary but faith-filled steps […]
Silver Linings Amidst Adversity
ONE year ago last week, I posted on social media (stupidly, might I add) about having been accepted to study Mental Health Nursing at one of the UK’s top institutions […]
(XXV): Dangerous Times
What can I say except be honest and vulnerable again? Times are getting very tough and truthfully dangerous. The Church and Christians are still by and large, sleeping. I heard […]
(XXIV) Ten Further Questions to Ask Yourself About Current Situations:
1). Why did the media in UK take it upon itself to “call” the US election, when the media has no power in US or anywhere to “call” the US […]
Covid Tales (XXIII): My Dear Wormwood…
My dear Wormwood, our 21st century plan is working very well. Particularly so in Europe, where individual citizens seem still to be buying it all incredibly well. The plan could […]
(XXII) The Great Censoring Continues: The Great Barrington Declaration
The weekend before last, three leading world class infectious-disease epidemiologists came together to sign what was dubbed ‘The Great Barrington Declaration’, to publically propose an alternative to tighter restrictions and […]
Revelation & Hope Amidst the Covid Doom & Gloom
There are 150 chapters in the Bible on the generation before Jesus’ return. Revelation is the only book of the entire Bible with the promise of blessing to those who […]
Facing Monday Wholeheartedly
Father God is allowing all the trials and adversity right now ultimately to draw us closer to Him. The Lord is alerting his people, grabbing their (our) attention, to get […]
Covid Tales: Facing Up To The Truth…
After a six week intentional Summer break from posting on here, a new Autumnal season is upon us in the new Covid-era and you can both expect a […]
(XVIII): ‘What In The World Is Going On’ Part 2
Reporting again directly from the Rockefeller Foundation report from 2010 which is entitled, “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development:” Following on from Sunday’ night’s post, this […]
(XVII): What In The World Is Going On
TONIGHT AND the rest of this past week I have been reminded that, “The joy of the Lord is our strength,” and, “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but […]
XV: Chained Up In Debt Amidst A Manipulated New Paradigm Shift
We are in a new ERA, and we are in this for the long haul. No matter what you believe, with a country now chained up in £2 TRILLION of […]
Covid Tales (xiv): Seven Years On, No Songs Of Praise Shall Be Sung This Summer
(Ballycastle beach, 20/6/20) Exactly seven years ago the first proper blog post on emeraldscribe was published. It seems a lifetime ago, and yet it is quite apt and timely […]
Covid Tales 2020 (xiii) : The End Of The World As We Know It?
Just over three months ago today, the world as we knew it ended for me personally, and within a couple of weeks, most of you too. I flew home from […]
Covid Tales (xii): Ten Questions To Ask Yourself About Covid
Tonight I begin with a few prefaces. First of all, as they say in my part of the world, “don’t eat me” if you disagree with any of this. We […]
Covid Tales (xi): Generational Stillness
HERE’S AN over 100-year-old Irish oak chair I had the priviledge of restoring this past week or so of further pandemic lockdown in Northern Ireland. It was thrown out for […]
Covid Tales (x): More Scrutiny Needed Of Ongoing Draconian Measures
SO BORIS is back to work. Prayers have been answered, one might say. (And as I’ve written quite openly before, I’m not politically a huge fan of Boris Johnson, but I […]
Covid 2020 (ix): Two Years On
EXACTLY two years ago last night, I had the now infamous motorcycle accident in Redding, Northern California, where I was blessed to be living at the time. I shared very […]
Covid 2020 Tales (viii): How the pallet progressed…
ALMOST forgot to post before the week is out. In the interests of integrity because I said I would, here’s a wee visual of how the pallet effort progressed yesterday. […]
Covid 2020 Tales (vii) : Pandemic-inspired Pallet Creation Continued
So here we are. The UK has been in “lockdown” now since over 3 weeks ago, and today the almost inevitable happened, as Boris Johnson’s number 2 in charge, Dominic Raab, […]
Covid 2020 Tales (vi): Fresh Creativity
THERE’S so much I could write about the last 10 days, in this covid-19 pandemic lockdown, but I’m going to refrain myself in this post. I will say here that I’m […]
Covid 2020 Tales (v) : Good Friday Bad Friday
SO my midweek post became a Good Friday post. Sorry about that. My heart feels heavy today and my body and mind are quite tired. But I’m not complaining. It’s a blessing […]
Covid 2020 Tales (iv)
TODAY’S POST almost hasn’t happened. But I decided to keep the discipline and fulfill what I wrote I would last time, of posting again “on Sunday”. One of the good […]
Covid 2020: Part 3
A VERY interesting unexpected thing is happening since I’ve started posting these pathetic wee covid-19 period blog posts. This blog site has been receiving new and unexpected traffic from China almost […]
Covid 2020 Tales: (ii)
SPRING HAS sprung here in Northern Ireland, and yet it’s hard to fully appreciate it since the whole country and entire British Isles are on complete lockdown now due to […]
Covid 2020 Tales
FROM THE beauty of rural Northern Ireland, I write to you from the ugliness of covid-19 quarantine, in what already feels a bit like a strange prison type scenario after […]
