Before we start: A reminder that the sowing season is arriving. Staying with friends Today I want to reflect on the features, the politics, the advantages and disadvantages of going to visit other people and stay in their homes. I shall also have a look on those who have been invited to stay with us. I suppose you could subtitle this article ' what makes the ideal house guest?' Let's first of...
Reflections on meetings that I have attended I have lost count of the number of meetings I have been to, large or small, harmonious or fractious, successful or confusing, aimless or full of purpose. As you may know I always wait until the day before deciding on my topic. This afternoon I had a meeting with my new web designer in, where else, Wetherspoon's. You would expect this pub to be fairly...
People sitting on their own Today's diary is occasioned by a remark someone in our church made to me when I was sitting by myself in an armchair in the church hall as a produced to the church meeting. The evening of yesterday was bad for me. I had been unwise enough to take a coffee with my cake at four pm in the afternoon. I should have learned better but there is something in the coffee that...
A few days ago I wrote a circular letter to about 60 people with whom I have had contact at various times. They consist of those who I regard as friends but also professional colleagues. Such is the time pressure on people today that I do not expect people to read let alone respond that occasionally I am surprised, and this morning was one such when someone has taken the trouble to write back at...
I just felt like putting in this one. It has no relevance to the article. A fanfare in the face of chaos? I cannot remember living in such exciting times where the stakes are high and getting higher. At stake is the human being with all its glorious creativity and spirituality which is under threat from agents that think that artificial intelligence is enough to run the planet. Each day, there...
Do you write a book or does it write itself? I find that when the time is right, a book will write itself. I have written three books on energy and auras and I wrote from my heart and the whole thing was finished in a month. The book was not up to any scientific or academic purist standard but then it was telling a story of an individual and his discovery of a particular phenomenon. In a way,...
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Inspired by Samuel Pepys’ Diary 1633-1703