Is it just me, or does the clock seem to be speeding along at a hefty rate of knots? I’m sitting in Starbucks watching the world outside go by. Don’t we grow up fast? Maybe it’s my contemplative state of mind at the moment. In a large city like Birmingham, it’s possible to be alone while you’re amongst thousands of other faces; going about their business, and for the most part in a world of their own,...

I eventually cut my waist-high grass in my back yard recently, and it set me thinking… Annoyingly enough, I seem to have acquired the ability to ‘put off’. I think it essentially comes from having too much on. Too many things going on all at the same time; juggling deadlines, politics, people, projects, family, music, work, church — it’s all becoming a bit too much! One of my real pleasures in life is to create...