University Songs: Songs Written While At University About Life At University

Along with friendships and valuable experiences, one of the more tangible things to come out of my time at university is the formation of my upcoming debut album, ‘University Songs: Songs Written While At University About Life At University’. I was privileged to have the support of my fellow students and lecturers, and to even …

Sketches

A couple of years ago, I visited the Beethoven exhibition at the British Museum. Admittedly, one of my unfortunate assumptions about the creation of music is that I thought composers sat down at a desk and wrote pieces, perhaps erasing and rewriting parts as required, but generally seeing the whole process through from start to …

Five Pounds

Working at the self-storage place is a straightforward job. I open up at eight and then man the desk, ready for anybody that comes in needing help or who rings with a query, and generally make sure everything runs smoothly for the customers. Often it’s just a basic thing — someone has lost their key …

Late

————— ‘Lastly, my constant truth let me commend To him thou choosest next to be thy friend. For (witness all things good) I would not have Thy youth and beauty married to my grave.’ Henry King ————— ‘I’m late. I know. It just happened. I’m sorry.’ She ignored me. ‘Sorry I’m late,’ I repeated. Still …

Encouragement

Perhaps one of the saddest changes that has happened in communication through the years is the reduction in number of encouraging letters sent between two people. By this, I do not refer to long-distance correspondence, but the letter writing that occurred between two friends who could have said the same thing verbally. The two who …

Flowers on the Waves

She is dead. I still remember those three words being spoken to me. I sat in the hospital waiting room. I hoped upon hope that all would be okay, that somehow everything would work out; but after the longest two hours that I have ever experienced, the nurse arrived to tell me. She is dead. …

The Door

I entered. He was still there. He was already facing me, his eyes piercing with fear as the door opened. Upon seeing I was alone, he relaxed, but there was no smile. From the smattering of English he possessed, it was hard to know precisely what his life had been before he ended up at …

The Tower

‘Friend. Friend! Come and speak with me for a while. Where are you headed?’ ‘I’m not certain of the destination, but I’m definitely due in this direction. Excuse me, but I really must get on.’ ‘What is your name?’ ‘Dustin Feignton.’ ‘Well, we must have come from the same Man. My name is also Dustin …

Thaw

Cold and hard as the winter had transpired to be, few places in the city were as cold and hard as the heart of Ezra Chary. Frozen puddles enticed children to substitute skating for walking, and impromptu snowball fights raised smiles with great ease, but no such mirth followed the man who now stomped down …

C.S. Lewis – Generosity

On this day in 1963, the man whom I regard as my master — C.S. Lewis — died. His writing has had a big impact on me, but of far greater impact is the tone of his life. There are many angles one could take — and previously I have talked of his humility — …