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Life - in three words
Posted by Simon Parke, 25 Jan 2021
What is life in three words?
Life is process - and therefore a changing shape before our eyes, with nothing fixed.
We cannot grasp it, for that would be like grasping water; like taking hold of air.
By the time our mind locks onto an image, the image has changed…
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Home-working. Is this the future?
Posted by Simon Parke, 19 Jan 2021
What are your feelings about home working? Are you missing the office? Or delighted to be away?
Some of those I work with, like nurses and doctors, would like to see a great deal less of their work place currently. The ‘luxury’ of home-working is not available.
While one commuter is enjoying being given back his twenty hours of travel every week…
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A refreshing lockdown walk with Hildegard
Posted by Simon Parke, 13 Jan 2021
In these lockdown times, I am allowed to take a walk with one person from another household.
And so, with due social distancing, and wary of the police, I take a walk with Hildegard of Bingen, nine centuries outside my support bubble; though still somehow part of it. (It’s OK - ghosts are quite legal in support bubbles.)
And I discover along the way that…
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My 2012 talk on solitude at Greenbelt - Part 4
Posted by Simon Parke, 8 Jan 2021
So here we are, in our final episode, thinking about the quality of our solitude because solitude is not a place but a quality.
And one way to test our solitude is to reflect on the nature of our silence. So as we listen to our silence now, what are we identifying with?...
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My 2012 Greenbelt talk on solitude - Part 3
Posted by Simon Parke, 8 Jan 2021
This is part three of my 2012 talk at Greenbelt on solitude.
And we start with a further irony about my book on the subject: it’s a conversation. Really?
It didn’t start out that way, but by the third draft it was a partial conversation and by the 4th draft, all conversation.
It was still all conversation after the 8th draft; and this is true to life…
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‘Meet Jesus unplugged,’ writes former Fleet Street editor, Richard Addis, after reading Simon’s latest novel, Gospel: Rumours of Love. ‘In a stunning act of imagination, Simon Parke shatters every stained glass window in your mind.’
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In Solitude: Recovering the power of alone, Simon describes solitude as the active path to inner silence and takes us on an enthralling journey there. In a world of haste and distraction, he commends the way of stillness and withdrawal where we can ‘recover the power of alone’.
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Julian of Norwich, contemporary of both Chaucer and Langland, was the first woman to write a book in English. Yet remarkably, she disappeared from view for 600 years, before her rediscovery in the 20th century. My new novel is Julian’s own telling of her life.
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