July 10, 2025July 15, 2025 Have we become ungovernable? It could be a new board game called ‘Govern that!’ set in a democratic but bankrupt country facing an ever more uncertain world. Each player is Prime Minister. But who will stay in power? The players must first decide what will be their game plan. There are three choices. 1) One Nation: General health of the nation. 2) Golden Division: Government by demonization and division 3) Power for Power’s Sake: using all means necessary to keep it. Nothing else matters. The first is a generalist approach steeped in compromise but …
June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 The Gospel according to the Garden Before we go to the garden, a verse from a poem that could scarcely be less floral or Monty Don: …
May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 Are Christianity and therapy joined at the hip? So, here’s the question: ‘What is the relationship between Christianity and therapy?’ And the answer, of course, will depend on …
July 10, 2023 Psalm 22 and the Bipolar story Psalm 22 is famous; and as John Motson might have said, ‘very much a psalm of two halves’. It’s also …
July 3, 2023 The perils of people-pleasing In an ancient story, the father rode on the donkey and his son walked alongside him. Onlookers were aghast: ‘Look …
June 26, 2023 The one thing better than enlightenment And what, we might ask, is the goal for the human psyche? ‘To become enlightened, surely?’ comes the reply. After …
June 20, 2023 Do I fear being myself? I meet many people who give others great power over them; and so become fearful of being themselves. Perhaps they …
June 20, 2023July 26, 2023 Hello world! Linking a RocketBook Notebook to GitHub Issue Lists (16/9) Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or …
June 9, 2023 The two halves of life Evidence suggests that if we wish to flourish in the second half of life, we’ll need to adjust. As Carl …
June 1, 2023 Your brilliantly simple special power We all need our short walks back to ourselves In the eye of the storm, when it’s all too much, …
May 22, 2023 On feeling small Sometimes I feel small And it is good and not bad I just find myself as one among others. I …
May 15, 2023 How to do well Natural doing, as Lao Tzu said, is doing which arises from our being. So unnatural doing is that which arises …
