Newsletter: January 2026 Greetings again, dear web friends, at the start of another year, which can breed various feelings – optimism in some, uncertainty in some, and cynicism in others: ‘It’s just another year. Do you really expect anything to change? Really??’ So I’m pondering a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins which you will probably know better than me. It’s a meditation, written in 1877, full of alliteration and allusion, on the relationship between God and the world, between man’s abuse of the planet and nature’s effervescence, between despair and …
