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‘Love’? What’s that then?
Well, to start with it’s a strange word. It’s like ‘God’ – in the sense that it’s used an awful lot, abused an awful lot and misunderstood just as often. When I was a kid it simply confused me. Very … Continue reading
In the Face of the Unknowable
The highest that man can attain is Wonder…. (Goethe) Then wonder – that the wonder of these things is a mirror to the innermost you.
A Walk in the Park. Not.
The last time I posted on this blog was about four months ago, in early June – a little piece about life being rather like a ball of string. I left it a bit open-ended, with the intention of continuing … Continue reading
Life is a Ball of String
One of the oddest things about us human beings is that we are a puzzle to our own selves. We don’t know who we are. We’ve split the atom; we’ve been to the moon; one of us wrote Beethoven’s Fifth; … Continue reading
But what can I do?
There is at this time – not surprisingly – in the blogosphere, in the newspapers, the TV and radio news, a whole lot of talk about fear on the one hand, and on the other – hope. The hope is … Continue reading
A seed of hope?
Some months ago, for a blog which I never published, I wrote the following – “We’re in a mess, aren’t we? An even bigger mess than the one we were in a year or two ago. And we don’t seem … Continue reading
13/15 February 1945
The other day, I listened to an interview, recorded very recently, with a British man, now over 100 years old – a prisoner of war I suspect – who was caught up in the bombing of the German city of … Continue reading
Listen to the Birds
I will remember the December just gone as having been mostly grey and grim. And wet. On many days, in the little park below my kitchen window, the leaden skies seemed to hang so low they could hardly have been … Continue reading
A Random Act of Kindness
A long time ago, I was eight years old. I was an only child. I lived with my mother and grandmother in a small town in the south Midlands. We had little money. Mum worked in a large grocery shop … Continue reading
Making a mess, aren’t we?
We’re making a mess of this, aren’t we? After thousands of years of conflict, we – the human race – are still at it. One nation argues with another, drops bombs on another. (What, in the final analysis, is a … Continue reading
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