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Back from an island…

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…”

In the wilderness.

‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone’ (Blaise Pascal). I’ve been back a few days from a yearly ‘wilderness retreat’ and it was beautiful; hard, tiring, full of laughter, tears & honesty and at times almost overwhelming. The wilderness doesn’t exist for you or me and theseContinue reading “In the wilderness.”