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Advent: Love The Conversation Elements From The Conversation Music With all our love and deep wishes for a very meaningful Christmas.  George & Matilda

  Making Decisions The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  Music May the road rise up to meet you. As always, with our love.  George & Matilda

Looking Back On The Year The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  Music A well known piece of music, full of drama and variety - much like the elements of a year - played in an unexpected way. That unexpected creativity adds spice to our days and lives. With love and all our dreams for you. George & Matilda 

  Being Called To A Quiet Life  The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  “I’m sure that you’ve heard the story of my earlier life when I lived in the Jewish way. In those days I went all out in persecuting God’s church. I was systematically destroying it. I was so enthusiastic about the traditions of my ancestors that I advanced head and shoulders above my peers in my career. Even then God had his eye on me. Why, when I was still in my mother’s womb he chose and called me out of sheer generosity! Now he has intervened and revealed his Son to me so that I might joyfully tell non-Jews about him. Immediately after my calling—without consulting anyone around me and without going up to Jerusalem to confer with those who were apostles long before I was—I got away to Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus, but it was three years before I went up to Jerusalem to compare stories with Peter.” ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭1‬:‭16‬-‭20‬ The ‭Message  Music With our love. George ...

I love the Blues. Saying that, I realise that there is so much that I still have to discover. What specific type of Blues is it that I love – Detroit Blues, Memphis Blues, Delta Blues? I’m not quite sure. Blues has gone through so many stages and still has such a huge influence on other genres of music that it is very difficult to narrow down and categorize. I would say I lean more towards Delta Blues. Where they use the acoustic guitar to its fullest. Where they sometimes tap with their fingers on the body of the guitar and where the strings have a sound as if they’re not tight enough. It has a certain twang to it. The piano, harmonica and other instruments being used tend to roll and wail. Without necessarily using percussion instruments, there is a deep beat to my type of Blues. And the main thing, it is somehow raw, touching the primal. So, I am constantly listening and looking for my Blues. And without being able to categorize it exactly, I definitely know when I fin...