Eternity is a very long time
Eternity is a very long time – especially towards the end, quipped Woody Allen - possibly quoting other sources. I regularly attend a Zen group that is part of the Wild Goose sangha . This week, Marcus read to us about ‘the now’ and talked of intimacy requiring [...]
But one day, I know,
The photo is of a huge pile of socks. I've been on holiday for 10 days: first in Northumberland, hiking the coast, seeing Holy Island and a hill fort or two and taking a memorable trip to the Farne Islands, then walking 60 miles along Hadrian's [...]
A better load
A friend emailed me saying she was feeling a bit overwhelmed. Her new book was out, a big launch party was planned and there were all the routine pressures of daily life. I've had a similar feeling this past few months. It's been around 12 [...]
This air I’m about to in- and exhale
Here’s a poem I’ve always enjoyed by Thomas Lux. It came to mind as I’ve woken early again, partly due to midlife insomnia and partly the ‘goddamn birds singing’ . It's called Poem in Thanks. I love being awake in the early mornings when the [...]
Where can we live but days?
What a beautiful day. Ash Wednesday came and woke me early with the beginnings of a dawn chorus. I rode my bike to the cathedral – a mile away downhill, mostly along a path crossing Beverlie Meadows, a big expanse of green between St Stephens [...]
The drunkenness of things being various
February was an eventful month, in the world and for me personally with extreme weather events, both inside and out. There wasn't actually Snow but I drove from Kent to Cornwall through floods, hurricane-strength winds, hail and rain, skirting a sink-hole that opened up on the M2 [...]
