Give us this day out daily kiss from

Every step, every destination, I love you.

Despite the murderous traditions, I love you.

You are pious, your kisses are your prayer.

You are different, your kisses are your protest.

You are not afraid of love, of hope, of tomorrow.

I kiss you amid the Taliban, you are not afraid!

RAMIN MAZHAR.

Knew a lady used to go stand outside Church when l was in my most formative years. Waiting for her boyfriend who had been killed in the War.
She knew ....told us ..'but l promised once a week to get dressed walk to our meeting place. Wait.' 
 Then l go home.

Found this poem in the end credits of BBC 4 'Kabul' series convoluted but essential disturbing concerning but essential. Tucked away on the schedules of Saturday evening TV viewing but still essential. Painful suppose even hopeless but remaining convoluted disturbing and essential. Here the post plays with our minds telling us how our hearts in a short essay should remain full of hope 

We don't miss enough each day we should kiss someone someone we love should send us kisses and we should gladly receive them. In protesting remaining loving in the very worse on the very worse day kiss and love bring hope and inspire others.

Hate as l said earlier this week gets hate. Kisses promote Love and a desire for kissing.

May God give each person more kisses, give us this day out daily kiss from another  

It's arriving soonish autumnal cold, reflective.

I'm poor

I was born in the North 

Lived a life trying to battle poverty.

Hate injustice 

Seen the rich get richer.

Times we are living some say , they say it a plenty, are end times..Did discover at young age that equality was never going to come because I'm poor l Was born in the north.

We struggle, get labelled, but we still inspire despite coming from blighted place. Even on other planets there will be a north. There will be South North divide with Inequality experience by those battling poverty seeking justice. The kids local feels it's ok to raid, hassle, attack baristas at Costa in our city  

I'm poor, l'm from the north, but we had a sense of what is right and wrong . We never stole, we learnt that justice doesn't involve stealing from others.

I'm poor, I'm from the north, but found faith, found different way found a better way.

Beds burn and others create more fires.

Palestinian Authority schoolchildren as young as nine were given maths exercises based on the 7 October Hamas attacks, including questions about the number of Israelis killed, rockets fired, and terrorists sent into Israeli communities.

Hate begets hatred and then begets further hatred then it begets more hatred that moves into place where further hatred ......

Still the beds are burning.

 The Government has pledged to tackle cost of living pressures, with a spokesman stating they are "acting to give consumers breathing space" Many including my humble household is finding energy bills too expensive. This monstrous act of paying over the top energy bills is hurting many.  The energy bills are set to increase to their highest level for three years heading into winter. The poverty issue has been at forefront of any justice issues l have encountered in 45 years plus involved in faith based activist youth work.

I cannot stand this ridiculous situation. Water bills. Gas bills. Food inflation. Diesel costs, household problems they are hitting many. In UK 6 out of 10 young people are experiencing mental health issues. Talking and still working with young people it hurts. Hear disturbing stories. Hope is not evident our Church struggling with food bank stocks more people seeking help. Less giving and costs of building proving difficult to maintain.

The Governments of last 5 decades are still not listening nor do they appear to care. 

Seldom do we look deep enough.

 Whose side was Jesus, called by some itinerant teacher and activist from Nazareth really on?

Can you imagine the horrors of Black people? Snatched from the shores of Africa, shipped like cargo in the hulls of ships, stacked like sardines, in our own waste, thrown off the ship into the ocean if it made economic sense. Beaten, maimed, raped, killed, ripped from the arms of their mothers. Worked like chattel with no pay. Finally emancipated then lynched and terrorized for the audacity of being finally “free.” Counted as 3/5 a person, for the sake of landowning voters, then denied the right to marry, to vote, to live freely, to own land. 

Whose side was Jesus, called by some itinerant teacher and activist from Nazareth really on?

I don't believe technology helps us to gather better or communicate in the best ways towards each other. We would look knowingly has someone communicated in words. Further and the solitude of silence, enabled growth in our Understandings of each other. Those with stories to tell where often listened. The least not confident they have they been welcomed or valued by new way of being. 

This is not a racial issue white working class folks suffered the same often. I believe it is more a social poverty issue. 

Monday if get the chance watch Star wars episode a New Hope.

 Well l watched the New hope...which you may or maybe you won't recall was the first of the Star wars 70s trilogy of films. It's pretty good but a wee bit cardboard like when you come to the special effects, along with the props, plus poor cutting room edition l watched. 

However it has a story it was the frontrunner of loads of games it belongs though in that era of a film being exciting but somehow before films technically really improved 

What l didn't know is this the film was a 'mish mesh' of lots of films put together by the great George Lucas. Casablanca gets a nob....yellow brick road and the magnificent seven all spotted.

But it also fast inferred values about redemption. Requiring a saviour, judgement overcoming resilience, and grief loss, and rejection. It has values about small uncounted for boy growing into adulthood overcoming adversity and showing persistence. Bringing hope in a hopeless situation. Standing up for principles and daring to care.

Dare to care, and bring others hope. It's Monday if get the chance watch Star wars episode a New Hope.

 "However or in whatever changes l make. Like you still hold onto something of what l was. That remains in my Identity." 

                                     The  ..'spiritofthestreets58'@

Reasons to be cheerful 2026.

So they wrote off my home town team like they often done in the past. It's only entertainment just a game of football. That brings excitement hope, dreams. How does that transcend into the daily walk taken by people in Hull, (one letter from Hell).

They wore the colours of thier home town team with pride. Carried shoulders high walking thru the bus station over the footbridge into the stadium to observe various warm up drills. Some carried bags with goodies, drinks, snacks..those with extra had further treats at the ground expensive overrated and unhealthy. The staple diet of the over carbonates locals too many calories, too many deep fried choices, too much money.

The game set off with a crash plus burn approach. This method to collect as many points as you can and climb the league table as soon as the team can.

The commentators over paid and over in Humberside...while the team are Yorkshire based have already made their predictions to write off suggesting relegation fight for Hull city's tigers.

Of course as often most certainly last season City have not read the script. We are proud we are chuffed to bits we are settled and at peace with the world.

Still only a game 'a funny olde game' but today we at Hull city we are the winners.

Art sometimes brings us different focus.

Sometimes time can improve our understanding our sense of what we should view. Others can improve with technology how we perceived things bringing different focus.People with better way of being can see an image then shine alight in to prices compaction. They can with expertise shows us what we may not see at first sight.

The above image by Monet can do that for myself hopefully for you also. The colours have been cleaned up and improved.

The background telling us about life although rural image it also highlights events in city nit further away. Perhaps learn to focus, may encourage us to  witness the lives of the two individuals pretty central to the image. The shadows from the tree suggest to us it's Autumnal situation.

The story of Tobias in the Apocrypha bits of the bible not included on the cannon do that . They invite us further into examining our life's, our stories and the relationships we foster. .The Bible can offer us insights, different understanding,  highlighting ways to be different, better, and gain a new focus. 

Today the rain came it came on the just and the unjust. I was in both camps somehow.

In 1975 very different younger Kevin watched a play for today. ..'just another Saturday...' about a Orange parade Saturday in July.

True as l'm sat here writing this, it had an impression upon myself was it just me growing up?. Was it just seeing someone wrote something l connected with?  Was it just about place...traditions...and me finding my own independent thinking? .

Still today l'm crossing borders chasing down thoughts, sharing life. Making mistakes trying to hold onto faith.witnessing telly showing me families in chaos on estates like mine. Fearful of a world that was changing. Disappointed in what was evidence to what we desired. It's 2026 and lots of the issues identified in a daft play written for TV. Issues are still sensitive matters for now. Echos to return the poignant troubled moments that get repeated all around us even in this moment.

Today the rain came, arrived it rained on on the just and the unjust. I was in both camps somehow.

A song and a psalm, a prayer and a ponder...

 🎶. 🎼.  🎼

Somewhere along the way

The future became yesterday

I didn't notice it day by day

The time just kept on slipping away

🎶🎶🎶

#MorningPrayer Lord God, Holy Trinity, heighten our attentiveness to and awareness of your work in our lives and in our history, that our faith may be turned not towards the idols we create for ourselves to feed our fears, but rather be fed by your grace, and placed in your love.

For those still with roads you've yet to take. .

Where did all the time go

The years went fast, but the days went slow

The man in the mirror is older than me

He's standing where I used to be

I've had my share of ups and downs

Lost my way then turned around

Every road I took they led me

Right here to where I'm meant to be

Somewhere along the way

The future became yesterday

I didn't notice it day by day

The time just kept on slipping away

I've seen enough to know what stays

And watched the rest all fade away

There's still some roads I've yet to take

And I'll find them somewhere along the way

I still feel young in my mind

Even if my body's lost some time

I ain't as fast as I used to be

But there's still a life out there for me

I've had my share of wrong and right

Some days dark, some full of light

Every mile and every turn

Gave me something I could learn

Somewhere along the way

The future became yesterday

I didn't notice it day by day

The time just kept on slipping away

I've seen enough to know what stays

And watched the rest all fade away

There's still some roads I've yet to take

And I'll find them somewhere along the way

I wouldn't change a thing I've done

The good, the bad, what I've become

It all led me right to this place

Standing here still in the race.....

Somewhere along the way

The future became yesterday

I didn't notice it day by day

The time just kept on slipping away

I've seen enough to know what stays

And watched the rest all fade away

There's still some roads I've yet to take

And I'll find them somewhere along the way

Hull City brought the curtain down on their pre-season campaign with a goalless draw against OGC Nice at the MKM Stadium on Saturday afternoon. In an entertaining friendly against the French Ligue 1 side, the Tigers had chances to secure victory but were unable to find a way through, and now attention turns to next weekend's big Premier League opener at home to Manchester United

There were a host of questions many coming from my nephew Lain Anthony that still need to be answered. Did his uncle Kev Jinx it by saying...

"That French goalkeeper looks class"... 

But according to Lain Anthony before the transfer window closes in a couple of weeks...` It would have been nice to see a goal.`.. However it was nice occasion for his first footie match.. 

3 bottles of shoot good name for a drink at soccer match one bottle of lucazade 3 bags of cheesy wot its and don't know how many ? starbrights ..

 Sergej Jakirovic will hope some of those can be answered in the next few days.

Agree it would been nice to see a goal even a shot at goal.

We are all spiritual brings.

 Sorry about the bad news in fact spoken by many Socialist atheists at University when l was there in the mid 90's ...' l am not religious just spiritual:...

Plus we would get lots of attention when issues of sexuality arose. "You Christians Kevin should be careful in your practice when you working for such an oppressive"...( authority as the Church.)

We commented on our little cafeteria groups and supported each other but failed to agree with those points. Church l was based had a gay leader and sexualy confused leading deacon. Nothing about them was a hindrance not did it impact there's or mine judgement relating to my A+ placement studies and portfolios submitted.

Yes ..'we are all spiritual',...we are each of us, after all made in the image of a loving God.

So what does spiritual bypassing mean. Well firstly it's langue of the elite plus those were bit cynical often used by the deconstructing brigade. It suggests that those who talk holistically using spiritual dimension as part of complete picture. Spiritual bypassing suggests such people feel they are above others.  It's not true l hope you sense that often l offer the argument ...simply the way people like me function primarily. That is all that's intended. Stop the confusion it's just that simple.

City of hull on show in 0-0 draw

 

A day of experience few shouts of excitement conversations mostly about football, as the new season develops. It's hot summer and we watched frustrated game petered out into this nil nil draw .

We loved everything about the game. It's pretty commercial bland experience as pointed out to myself, no atmosphere. But occasionally must simply must engage with the likes of others cultural experience.

Still a lot to be challenged by as autumn beckons.

 

#MorningPrayer

Challenge us, Lord Jesus, that we may put our trust not in the selfishness of our own prejudices, nor in the false security of what the crowd will cheer,
but in the leading of your Spirit, the values of your kingdom,
the love you call us to know
and to show to all.

So a new dawn for old vessel that journeyed to the cold harsh conditions of the Greenland further Artic circle part of Hull heritage. Trawling was part of the industrial strength that built this city it's bleakness was always evident. Now it's all part of a distant past. Not glorified but evident it tells a tale calls us to the glory days.

"You are everything and everything is you" is playing on repeat in the playlist.

So how have you been on the hottest day this country had experienced in really long time. Summer of 1975 saw myself in Robin hoods bay volunteer in youth work. Had been expelled from school 12 months before  this was a formative summer period. Was this generation falling in love understanding what that meant?

Buying our music? Working learning about being apprentices into life? Youth centre plus Church exposed us to role models that would teach us values about life. We didn't know very much but felt like we knew so much more. Guess we didn't know then that we were going to know much later on in life.

But our playlist was mainly tamla and northern soul. Plus odd progressive track like..

' Best of my love ' Eagles.

"You are everything and everything is you" is playing on repeat in the playlist we have found to get us through this moment as we fell in love. Next year would be the summer of punk culturally 1976.

Nice way to be ..

 Some people just spend time thinking about the deeper stuff. It's just the way they are think for a while fact that they do this normally without sense of calling not being commissioned is incorrect. But it's not the kind of thinking thought and reflection leads often a person into ancient art of being a pilgrim. Think about others sojourner life journeys. Feel compassion and longing to walk alongside them through difficulties. That's makes them different. Heaven and earth all the Saints whisper in thirty pondering guiding them anew. This fruitful expertise often brings them into further acts of compassion, grace, concern for others.

Deep wrestling becomes a practice the next day it's often same practice. That develops I to growth it then forms own heritage. Walk with others exploring issue is more of second nature 

That could be you. That could be how you wish to grow it may be fearful it may be risky but it's still an option for each of us. Not religious it's a spiritual practice it's different , maybe feel better way to be. Me... walk with Jesus he remains my guide.

Some people are just not interested in being ...kind...compassionate and grateful.

They are simply not interested in development, growth , concern for others ...wickedness has allowed them to prosper so why should they care.?

AI is just a profit without consequence no concern for the workers neither the tools they have developed. Satanic and self serving

 A prominent feature one that is very disturbing and is evident in the gyms l use is the capability of an AI algorithm progress data that sounds like favorite track of music . Its awful such as in computer accompaniment technology, Some one listens too the track of music. They then  organise the computer which further listens to a human performer . Then copies something like that even them in real-time ....WHAT A LOAD OF WICKED BOLONY 

This is a ethical dilemma also choice to steal ,rob and damage the artists scene , damage the original composer thus making a profit from this action. Its wicked, immoral style of bullying plus it is theft.

No other description of the actions. None. So lets stop there.

Its incorrect to profit in this way. YET local authorities are doing this evident in Leisure centres, in museum, education. AI is just a profit without consequence no concern for the workers neither the tools they have developed. Time energy efforts is bypassed as AI trampled others in mainstream it's quite Satanic making it right to not pay the workers his dues.

It's sinful indwelling now in full view and we need to get real, stop this selfish problematic development.