Frosts and forests, coinage and coffee! A few personal highlights from January 2024, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Category: thoughts
No dark without light
Here is my foreword to the latest book from my friend Bryan Wempen. Your own path is there for you to discover.
MJCarty.com: Top 5 posts of 2023
I present the five most-read posts of 2023 on MJCarty.com. If you have taken the time to read any words on this wee blog of mine, you have my heartfelt gratitude.
MJCarty snapshots December 2023
Belated cybermen, unexpected badgers and grunge memories! A few personal highlights from December 2023, captured in tiny wee snapshots.
Dr Paul Taylor-Pitt: I’ll never be the same because of you
“I love both the reality and the meaning of Madonna.” A special guest post by Dr Paul Taylor-Pitt on how Madonna has inspired him to live “a deliberate, provocative and vivid life” of reinvention and celebration.
After the sun
How do you feel, after the sun has gone? There is beauty everywhere in the arrival of autumn.
Always think about tomorrow
Victory at all costs for today is a dead end. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Always think about tomorrow.
An entirely benevolent gesture?
When was the last time you encountered an entirely benevolent gesture? Something done from pure motives, with the simple aim of bringing a tiny bit more good into this world?
Stayin’ alive
If you are lucky enough to stay alive long enough, many things will fall apart or fall away. If you are lucky, what you are left with might be what is most important.
The hard part is keeping it
What things enrich your life to an extent you might not even realise? What are you doing to keep those invaluable things in your life?
