February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 Tariffs – economic and emotional. A brief study of blame. Blame and its dark associates are having an absolute field day on Planet Earth. Both in politics and at home, things have never been better for the cause of condemnation. It’s a drug we can’t get enough. Victim Trump blames other nations with relationship-breaking economic tariffs. He puts up a financial wall - it makes him feel better. And then John blames his wife Mary for his unhappiness. It must be Mary. What else could it be? It means unhappy John can at least feel he’s ‘in the right’. Blame …
February 3, 2025February 4, 2025 An emotional de-clutter She returns to the utility room which she has just cleared. It has taken five hours but looks so different …
January 23, 2025January 23, 2025 London’s Knotty Pickle Newsletter: January 2025 Warm New Year greetings to you, and I don’t know how you relate to January. I was …
January 21, 2025January 22, 2025 Impermanence and its friends If our existence is compared to an ocean, on our ocean floor, beneath everything above, are three immovable rocks – …
January 9, 2025 Acornology This is a slightly-redacted version of a talk I gave to 400 fourteen/fifteen-year-old students. A spoken event is different from …
December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 New year, true you Jesse doesn’t know who she is. So, she decides to ask others to give her an identity. ‘Then I’ll know …
December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 Christmas: the champion of festivals Newsletter: December 2024 Greetings again wherever you read this. Here in the UK, the darkness deepens and the damp chill …
December 9, 2024December 10, 2024 Towards our secret Christmas The magi, through desert extremes, followed the star to Bethlehem; and, in a manner, so do we. Bethlehem has many …
December 2, 2024December 2, 2024 How to relax Here is a way to relax; because when we are relaxed, whether at work or play, we see things more …
November 26, 2024November 26, 2024 What is love? What is love? It’s a strangely-avoided question. We use the word often enough. But what is it we speak of …
November 14, 2024November 14, 2024 How truth toppled an archbishop Next Sunday, with a degree of irony, is Safeguarding Sunday in the Church of England. And priests across the land …
November 5, 2024November 5, 2024 R.I.P. Nuance We gather here today to say farewell and goodbye to nuance, a much loved member of the human family, now …
