July 26, 2022 My brilliant surrender An intruder with a gun breaks into a monastery. He sticks the gun in the belly of a monk who …
July 19, 2022 This picture of my life needs changing Do you have a picture of how your life should be? Does it hang on your wall and do you …
July 13, 2022 Tory leadership – and Locard’s Principle Edmond Locard was a French Forensic Scientist, born in the 19th Century, who gave his name to a law that …
July 6, 2022 Negative emotions Negative emotions govern the world; while virtue operates as an heroic resistance movement. And negative emotions are extremely infectious. On …
July 4, 2022 The thread I was recently pointed towards a poem by the American poet William E Stafford. It’s called ‘The way it is’. …
June 28, 2022 The most damaging form of stress? Regeneration is the first in a trilogy of WW1 novels by Pat Barker. The third in the series, Ghost Road, …
June 21, 2022 Breaking news: The news is breaking me ‘It’s hard to watch the news these days,’ someone said to me recently. ‘There’s so much suffering. And so many …
June 14, 2022 I am not my thoughts, I am not my feelings The truth is, I am not my feelings and I am not my thoughts. This is the truth. Though sometimes …
June 8, 2022 When only the secondary self is offered I have long been grateful to the poet Ted Hughes. Grateful for his poetry; but even more grateful for the …
