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Covid Tales (xiv): Seven Years On, No Songs Of Praise Shall Be Sung This Summer

June 20, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

(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 […]

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Beauty, Christian, Creativity, faith, Mental Health, northern ireland, Photography, prayer, Spirituality, Writing

Covid Tales 2020 (xiii) : The End Of The World As We Know It?

June 14, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

  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 […]

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Beauty, Christian, Coronavirus, Creativity, faith, Mental Health, Spirituality

Covid 2020 (ix): Two Years On

April 19, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

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 […]

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California, Christian, faith, prayer, Spirituality, Thankfulness, Travel, USA

Covid 2020 Tales (iv)

April 5, 2020by emeraldscribe 2 Comments

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 […]

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Christian, Coronavirus, faith, prayer, Spirituality

Sunday Scribe: Sheep Identity

February 10, 2019by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Just a few thoughts for tonight. I’ve been thinking since a few weeks ago about a talk I heard at a Church recently in Northern Ireland. The crux of it […]

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Christian, faith, Love, passion, Spirituality, Writing

Sixteen Weeks

August 8, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Sixteen weeks on from the Redding accident I decided to vulnerably share about in April, the sun is gratefully able to be felt once again on my skin. Time can […]

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Beauty, California, Christian, Creativity, faith, honesty, northern ireland, passion, prayer, Spirituality, summer, Travel, USA, vulnerability, Writing

Over 3,400 Fire Fighters Continue to Battle Redding Blaze

July 28, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

My heart is very, very heavy ongoingly today, ever since I discovered almost by chance late on Thursday evening UK time, that my second home of Redding was about to […]

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California, faith, peace, prayer, Spirituality, summer, USA, vulnerability

Further Reflections on an Eventful Year:

June 26, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

HAVING SHOCKED you with my photos last time, I hope you’ve realized by now my intentional opposite spirit to the majority of social media, (which is often aimed at presenting […]

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Beauty, California, compassion, Czech Republic, faith, healing, honesty, Mental Health, Spirituality, Thankfulness, Travel, USA, vulnerability, Writing

Boots from a notable night

June 14, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

It’s true a picture is worth a thousand words. Many people may not have believed the post I shared on 2nd May, sharing a tiny 10% snippet of what happened […]

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California, Christian, faith, honesty, Spirituality, USA, vulnerability, Writing

Good grief: Good Friday

April 15, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

THIS very afternoon just two weeks ago I went round to pray for a local father figure, someone I respect and cared for very much, a real rock solid background […]

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cancer, Christian, faith, Spirituality

Final Dark Beauty at Christmas…

December 21, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

This will be my final post of this year, and potentially thereafter. I haven’t firmly decided yet. As I always say, ‘I have a love-hate relationship with social media.’ I […]

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Beauty, Christmas, Creativity, faith, peace, Photography, Spirituality, Winter, Writing

‘Leannebo’ in a ‘Limo’

December 4, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

IT’S NOT EVERYDAY one gets to have a chauffeur driven ride in a limousine, but today, this memorable, cold Czech Sunday, that’s the surprise I ended up  experiencing. God has […]

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Czech Republic, faith, honour, Photography, Spirituality, Travel, Winter, Writing

Beauty and the beast

August 29, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

So I stepped out in faith at the beginning of the summer months and and then wrote the now infamous intentionally honest, vulnerable blog post I did. I have not […]

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Beauty, compassion, Creativity, faith, honesty, newspaper journalism, Photography, Spirituality, summer, Travel, Writing

Poetry Corner Wk 2: Touched

July 28, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

  Drunken orgies miss the mark The inner pod still empty, loosened, dark Making up for lost time, I wonder Back to my origins, healing, lack. Deftness hearkens back to […]

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compassion, faith, healing, honesty, Love, poetry, Spirituality, vulnerability, Writing

Broken eggs

July 25, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

  ‘You cant make an omelette without breaking some eggs.’ Isn’t that how the saying goes? Something is brewing and some ‘omelette’ is being made. Not just in me, but […]

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cancer, career, compassion, faith, French Terrorism, honesty, honour, Spirituality, summer, vulnerability, Writing

Honest Honour

July 18, 2016by emeraldscribe 2 Comments

Sitting here in the back garden of a hospitable home on this balmly summer’s evening in the north coast, I am dog sitting for a couple of weeks, amidst writing, […]

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cancer, career, compassion, faith, honesty, honour, Spirituality, summer, Travel, vulnerability, Writing

Silver Linings Amidst Adversity

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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 […]

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compassion, Euro2016, faith, Football, France, French Terrorism, honesty, Lyon, Mental Health, Mental Health Nursing, Paris, Spirituality, Travel, vulnerability

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