Ode to tinnitus
Jan 27, 2022
silence no more … More Ode to tinnitus
Author: stupatterson
Child of God, husband to Tracy, father to Alisha, Zoe and Naomi
Kelvingrove
Jan 12, 2022
Ma wurdz
Jun 21, 2021
It’s how ah think … More Ma wurdz
66 Twos and threes (1989)
May 22, 2021
He laughed, a laughed. That didnae happen often in thae days.
… More 66 Twos and threes (1989)
Journalism – the study of
Mar 25, 2021
What do you consider to be the main advantages and drawbacks in examining journalism from an academic perspective? “You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it. Which is the “true” or “valid” experience? Which tells you most about the thing?” (Lewis, 1945) Clive Staples … More Journalism – the study of
The land of saints and schemers
Jan 24, 2021
Rich children’s laughter still echoing down through the centuries. A shaft of sunlight through the trees catches my eye, glinting off the feeding trough that ensured the livestock never went without food. … More The land of saints and schemers
64 – Healed people help people
Jan 21, 2021
“We take broken down men with no hope…and we give them hope.” … More 64 – Healed people help people
A single change
Nov 21, 2020
The task for Writing Real Life was to think of one change you would make. One thing. And what you hoped for. A single change –An enabling to go back in time – just once – the gift of fifty. To make one stop and enact one change that would make a difference. My mum … More A single change
63 – We are family (2020)
Nov 18, 2020
“We’ve never really spoke about how I felt growing up with an addict as a brother and all the issues that came with it. ” … More 63 – We are family (2020)
That Saturday Feeling
Nov 16, 2020
“We would gather in my grans, with my aunts and uncles and the plates of sandwiches, then those heading to the game would go.” … More That Saturday Feeling
Post Code
Oct 3, 2020
I am guilty because of a
post code … More Post Code
62 Blood Lines (1995 – I think)
Sep 28, 2020
Instead of the pre-rush of excitement that heroin in my hand used to cause, now it was the dread and fear of finding a “route” to my rush centre. … More 62 Blood Lines (1995 – I think)
61 You’re here (2000)
Sep 28, 2020
on the waves through the night down the coast and over the sea rushing to Dublin, my honey to see after our call after midnight with Paul I sneaked away no notice no warning no words did I say, to Pembroke, to a boat to cross the sea, to a bus to the city my … More 61 You’re here (2000)
Bliss with a kiss
Sep 7, 2020
Originally posted on Completing the Tenner:
A moment in time with a prick in the arm and a rush of confusion and infusion. Opiate racing through my circulation. Its’ horrific bliss with heroin’s kiss My nose is itchy, and my tongue is dry. Stomach retching. Is this the high they spoke about when sharing the…
60 – One moment in time (2008)
Jul 16, 2020
Tracy and I have seen the faithfulness of God in ways which we knew in theory, that is the Bible told us. but now we know for ourselves that so many of His promises are true. … More 60 – One moment in time (2008)
59 – Ingredients (2008)
Jul 15, 2020
I did it! I finally did it! Through the clouds of my mind and my own (indulgent) low self esteem in this area of my private universe, I came up with a success. Now this was not a universe shattering, Sky News Headlines sort of success, but that is all relative anyway. … More 59 – Ingredients (2008)
Pause
Jul 14, 2020
Selah, Just a moment, Time out, Reflection, Consideration, Marinate, Recalibrate, Set off again © Stuart Patterson 2020 This POST is part of a wider collection to show the journey that would eventually lead me to the cross of Jesus Christ, my personal redemption, and my journey of faith afterwards. If you would like to know … More Pause
Next…
Dec 4, 2019
So much more I could sayabout everything from those days,the times at the shops hardly touchedwith hands out, but laughingfor cash for the drugs. Or snowball fights with the men in bluewho wore black, but anyhoo.The long weekends in Maryhill nickcos Baird Street was full (hmm that don’t stick). The bundles of tems hid behind … More Next…
Leg kicks
Dec 2, 2019
last time it was barbed pulling my skin ripping and tugging blood from there … More Leg kicks
58 Weekend at Baird Street (1986-89)
Nov 26, 2019
“No matter your opinion of how cushy prisons maybe, a police station cell door clunking closed behind you, with the noise moving in waves around you, let you know you were going nowhere. Neither that day nor in life.” … More 58 Weekend at Baird Street (1986-89)
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