I got back from a wilderness retreat a week or so ago. I’ve taken part in these for some time now; the experience grows in my mind and imagination even more when I’ve left. We pick an island and sail: this year it was going to be Insh, but the tides didn’t work out, soContinue reading “Back from an island…”
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Lent?
In an instant news age, we tend to judge more and do so more quickly. Access to information is constant and eventually the algorithm will get you with delicately curated gobbets designed to ramp up your outrage. I confess I have succumbed. I confess that I still succumb. There’s a temptation for those of usContinue reading “Lent?”
59
I remember once reading that your late 50s and early 60s are a time when you can get the most conservative and resistant to change: the siren call of nostalgia- ‘things were better then’ , an awareness that everything that is touted as ‘the next big thing’ you’ve seen in at least three different iterationsContinue reading “59”
‘Credo’
It’s been a while since I wrote anything on here: we moved house and I’d underestimated both the feeling of security of having your own home and also the physical and emotional toll- clear thought has been rare. At the theological college I went to, there was a final year course called ‘Credo’; the aimContinue reading “‘Credo’”
General Election:1
I’ve not posted much recently as I haven’t had the headspace to do so. I got a degree in Politics back in 1987 and I’ve always been interested in the political process and the question of ‘how then shall we live together?’. I originally wrote a longer version of this, but then decided to shortenContinue reading “General Election:1”
‘Just go with the flow’ : from ‘Vacuous Cliches’ (pg183)*
Some days I wish I could It would be easier. Instead of being battered by its waves or weary from trying to fight it, And anxiously uttering prayers for it to cease, or just to have strength, orO God, anything… There is a lot to do, And a lot to save: too much (Although,Continue reading “‘Just go with the flow’ : from ‘Vacuous Cliches’ (pg183)*”
Happy Easter
I’m not sure how to celebrate Easter Sunday on social media. ‘Happy Easter’ combined with bunny rabbits and Easter eggs doesn’t quite cut it, but neither does the stock Christian meme of a blonde bearded Jesus emerging from a cave dressed in a white nightie with the kind of graphics that wouldn’t disgrace the bargainContinue reading “Happy Easter”
Pensioner
Today marks my first day as a pensioner: a pension from a previous employer begins from today. I’ll still be working for many years to come, but ‘pensioner’ has a strange ring to it- it is me, but is this me? I have no desire to hide the label: it’s part of life, and evenContinue reading “Pensioner”
Christmas
This picture is one of the pages of scrawl that I made for Christmas Day: nothing in it made it into the final edit. It took a long time to put what I did together, but the space to think, write, pray and wrestle with my demons was worth it: to me at least. Overall,Continue reading “Christmas”
Wearily Hopeful 