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On Visiting With Old Demons
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Little Gidding Girl launching at the Summer Solstice
After much work and heart-searching, I decided that I’d choose a date for the launch of Little Gidding Girl, and since the story starts at the Autumn Equinox, the launch is going to be midsummer,...
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No-one Should Be Left Behind
No-one Should Be Left Behind August is now behind us and with it, my summer holiday. We managed to get away for a while (a big achievement, actually) and one of our destinations was Glastonbury. I’ve...
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The Bad, the Good, and the Indifferent: 2017 in review The sands of time are trickling to the bottom bulb of the egg-timer of 2017. I’m not sure if it’s hard-boiled or burned-out, yet, so I am trying...
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The reality of a loss of faith There has much been written over the millennia on a phenomena known as loss of faith and I’m going to add to those many millions of words with a few of my own; those...
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The insidious perversion You know how sometimes a sentence or a few words or an event can set of a train of thought that goes into some sort of underground tunnel, rumbling away unseen until it pops up...
View ArticleThe vital importance of beauty, truth and hope in books
The vital importance of beauty, truth and hope in books As a card-carrying depressive, I’m not someone known for being an optimist. I’m sometimes like the love child of Marvin the Paranoid Android and...
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“We left the camp singing” – the interrupted life of Etty Hillesum These words, written on a postcard thrown from a cattle transport on its way out of Holland to Poland and its ultimate destination,...
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Brand new year – same old me I’ve never quite understood the hype of New Year. The changing of the calender is, in modern times, quite arbitrary. It pays no heed to celestial events like solstices, or...
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Dame Julian and self-isolation – some lessons from the 14th century Despite having her writings, we actually know surprisingly little about Dame Julian,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich...
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