Michael Holme
Something to live for
Billy Strayhorn wrote the song "Something to live for". It was based on a poem he wrote in his teens. In the late 1930s it was very hard...
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Michael Holme
- 2 days ago
- 1 min
Forgive me : the curse of memory
Having personally taken a medicine on a daily basis, that is known to affect cognition in terms of memory, and especially its short term...
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Michael Holme
- 4 days ago
- 2 min
Dream stealers
On entering the world I knew almost immediately, that I was not going to succeed in a worldly manner. Living in a capitalistic country,...
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Michael Holme
- Mar 13
- 1 min
What, you mean I'm not lazy and good for nothing?
Apart from the vital functions that our automatic nervous system deals with, for example, keeping our heart beating, and lungs breathing,...
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Michael Holme
- Mar 4
- 2 min
One day at a time
As a much younger man the pressures upon me seemed greater, and with poor mental health I was not equip to cope, or as in the chicken and...
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Michael Holme
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Falling out with people 101
Years of proselytisation attempts, originally towards myself, but later on, towards my second wife in isolation from me, have led me to...
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Michael Holme
- Feb 26
- 1 min
Grand exploitation
I've lived in the same Manchester suburb since 1997/98. The city centre has changed much in that time. Businesses come. Businesses go;...
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Michael Holme
- Feb 23
- 3 min
My Royal Society of Arts, 22/02/23, evening Zoom script/ presentation
I want to talk for five or six minutes. It’s about individualism and the notion of mavericks, with personal references in it. Today,...
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Michael Holme
- Feb 11
- 3 min
"Life is like a box of chocolates", chess, bridge, piano, and everything else
I see a parallel in life and creative endeavours, or something like chess, in fact bridge even. Looking at the last two, you begin with...
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Michael Holme
- Feb 5
- 2 min
C of E, Rome, Nature, C of E
I converted to Catholicism when I was around 30. That was after a much earlier childhood exposure to the Church of England's flavour of...
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Michael Holme
- Feb 4
- 1 min
The logic of now
According to some anxiety is linked to fear of the future, which to a lesser or greater degree is unknown. Similarly, past regrets,...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 31
- 1 min
The paradox Colin Jellicoe shared
My best friend was Colin Jellicoe. I visited him countless times over an almost 20 year period. Initially, as a customer, because he had...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 29
- 1 min
Amanda Mammana, AGT, and owning the past
I really like the young woman in this America's Got Talent video. She had had a hard time, somewhat linked to her speech impediment, and...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Amidst depression
Here's a brief suggestion for the more severely depressed. Depression is patently unmotivating, but when you feel like doing nothing, I...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 26
- 1 min
Being aloof
Automatically, people can be irritated by aloofness. It can easily look like a rejection. People tend to exist between two polls of...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 3
- 2 min
What is the "Dark night of the soul" ?
The follow statement was found high in Google's search results on the subject; "'The Dark Night of the Soul', is one of the most painful,...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 1
- 1 min
Herbie Hancock speaking as if about a life metaphor
A few years ago I bought Herbie's jazz piano lessons on www.masterclass.com. They were, in conclusion, unexpected, because in a sentence,...
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Michael Holme
- Jan 1
- 1 min
The folly of buying a DMR radio that doesn't actually support the DMR digital mode
ICOM's IC-R8600, high-end communications receiver, appears to have settled at firmware v1.35. I listen to mine nearly every night. It's...
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Michael Holme
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
"Gift of the gab"? Gifts don't always match outcomes of working
Did you realise, that people who never seem to stop talking, don't necessarily have some kind of "gift" of the gab, and therefore,...
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Michael Holme
- Dec 27, 2022
- 1 min
"Be kind", really?
Clearly, Jesus and others after him, have been saying "love one another", "peace", and "be kind", etc., for at least two millenia now. If...
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