For over ten years I have followed my eldest two boys and their sporting endeavours. But almost every week there is “trouble” at the game!
Continue readingFor over ten years I have followed my eldest two boys and their sporting endeavours. But almost every week there is “trouble” at the game!
Continue readingAs omicron wipes out Christmas 2021, what will happen to our children if their lives continue to be governed by quarantine and isolation?
Continue readingThere are some great tools out there to help but being a helpful facilitator it is still all about preparation and process.
I try to call home every week or 10 days to catch up on news. Both my Mum amd sister are really good at bringing you up to speed on many things that re going on. But so many funerals?
Continue readingAnyone who takes a walk around famous monuments in a city like Rome is going to get approached by street traders. Here are the tactics they tried on me outside the Colosseum at the weekend.
Continue readingNeeded to make a video for work but we could not face another Zoom window so we hit the road and had a great time along the way.
Continue readingBruce Willis set his time limit for robberies based on songs back in 1991 (Hudson Hawk), but for a 5K I need a whole Mozart Requiem.
Continue readingBased in Rome, Italy I help companies and individuals improve their performance in all areas of business and interpersonal communication. And in 2021 that means learning new methods to operate online.
Continue readingStories, a good story can start with a definition. “Vocation”, from the Latin, vocare, to “call”. This picture shows the Church of St John Chrysostom in Rome (viewed from the children’s playground) where I heard this lesson today.
Today’s sermon spoke of how a friend is that special person, with kindness in their heart, who wants nothing but who lets you in.
Samuel, Abraham … we even went back to Adam and Eve. Stories, need names, places, the sensation of what it was like to be there.
And stories need to be retold, over and over again.
A priest probably has to be many things to many people. My latest Linked article explains how impressed I was with Don Massimo’s public speaking skills during his weekly sermon.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/don-massimos-weekly-sermon-masterclass-public-speaking-david-massey