…is a time for reflection. Nothing much has changed here. The donkeys are happy and I am slipping more into the hermit mode that has motivated me for many years, and it is becoming the normal state now. Quietly, without too much notice, I have less need to go out from this place or write … More Advent…
I received the news from his son Richard early today, the last day of October 2023, that my friend Mike had been given the last rites and was fading away quickly. Then I learned six hours later that he had passed away. He had planned to come and stay for a few days this very … More Mike Scott: a homage to my friend
Here in the Spanish region of Valencia in 2023 we have been celebrating the centenary of the death of the impressionist painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). Sorolla was a great master of light and his paintings were often informed by photography, as his first job was lighting assistant to a photographer in Valencia. He … More A pilgrim at home: Part 3
The Rubí Tuesday blogue «So, it’s Tuesday again. Are you going to write your Rubí Tuesday blogue?» «I can’t be arsed.» «People are expecting it. They won’t be pleased.» «I’m not here to please people, I’m here to eat straw.» «Well, eat straw then. There’s plenty left.» «I can’t be arsed.» «Go and look at … More Tuesday again
The Road Less Travelled was a bestselling spiritual/psychology book in the 1980s, in what we might call the category of ‘popular spirituality’. I remember relying upon it heavily while leading a Liverpool parish weekend in a wet hillside retreat house in North Wales in 1989 (the year of the Hillsborough stadium football disaster in Liverpool, … More A pilgrim at home: Part 2
Equus Asinus 