by Andrew Pitchford | Jan 7, 2013 | Observations
How did we lose the meaning of urgency so easily? Are our lives so full of demands and emergencies that even a catastrophe has to schedule its crisis on your timetable? I’m asking you this question after three events prompted me to look at my own response to...
by Andrew Pitchford | Jan 6, 2013 | Personal
I’m sitting outside in the cool summer breeze of a Kiwi evening thinking of all the love I’ve experienced today from my family. What occurs to me is that I’ve had to be awake to love with our senses. If I hadn’t paid attention I would have...
by Andrew Pitchford | Jan 3, 2013 | Observations
#FirstWorldProblem”First World Problems” has become the throw-away line for a number of people when dealing with a 10-second problem in their day. The phrase first world problems is meant to lighten the load on the stuff we ‘deal with’ but it is also...
by Andrew Pitchford | Jan 2, 2013 | Observations
You’ve probably stepped into the New Year with a fresh determination to do things differently. You may have made resolutions or just a mental list of the things you want to see differently. Similar to a wife giving her husband the house repair list, you’re...
by Andrew Pitchford | Jan 1, 2013 | Media
The Jack Reacher movie character comes to us from a series of books written by Lee Child. Starting in 1997 with Killing Floor, Child has now released 17 books and some short stories that carry the adventures of Military Policeman and investigator Jack Reacher. The...
by Andrew Pitchford | Dec 30, 2012 | Media
The Rise of the Guardians movie brings together the fantastical skills of five of our imagination’s heart-loved characters to fight fear on behalf of the children they love and protect. Initially, Team Fantasy is headed up by Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter...
by Andrew Pitchford | Dec 30, 2012 | Observations
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. – Albert Einstein Last week the New Year was knocking on the front door and casually pressing the door bell but today its got the SWAT team out and they’re about to knock down the door to our lives...
by Andrew Pitchford | Dec 29, 2012 | Observations
God shows us signs all around but if we are too busy looking for what we have predetermined is ‘the sign’ do we miss every other signpost on the road? Sometimes we’re so focussed on the huge that we miss the little signs with big meaning. Men are...
by Andrew Pitchford | Dec 26, 2012 | Media
I’ve just discovered the ‘must-see’ movie of the holiday season and despite the play on words “Parental Guidance” is fun for the whole family. My wife and youngest two kids (12yo and 14yo) went to see Billy Crystal’s new movie on Wednesday night and we’re giving it...
by Andrew Pitchford | Dec 14, 2012 | Media
The Hobbit movie has arrived with great fanfare. This wasn’t just the long-awaited revealing of Peter Jackson’s Tolkien expression but even more, it is the beginning of the culmination of a Hobbit’s journey that began over a decade ago in Lord of the Rings – The...