Five Short Words
(Looking For The Space) Where Imagination And Reality Meet
A Babe In My Arms
I have had so many thoughts and prayers over the last nearly two years, but not been able to put into words what I’m thinking and feeling. Many times I have been on the edge of posting, but not been able to. Today, I was listening to a short passage from the Gospel of Luke…
How Then Shall We Live ?
I’ve been catching up with a couple of people I haven’t come across before … writer and ex environmental activist Paul Kingsnorth, and mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw. Paul Kingsnorth has a very powerful and to me convincing take on the climate emergency- or rather how we are responding to the climate crisis. Essentially the…
So, It’s Been A While
Around 20 years ago, we came a across a small Human Rights organistion called Amos Trust … named for some words in the Hebrew Bible (The book of the prophet Amos chapter 5) … But let justice roll on like a river righteousness like a never-failing stream! The particular aspect of their work that we…
I Just Came Across This
In my reading from Celtic Daily Prayer today, I read this: Being an adult involves carrying a load of responsibilities of our very own, burdens with nobody else’s name on them but ours, with each one of us bearing an unwritten biography whose chapters contain unheard of turns of fortune and unheralded feats of heroism.…
There’s Something In The Water
I wanted to write a song about inequality and the idea that the rich have unequal access to resources – with the example of a river, where upstream factories and communities are taking all the water, so that the land downstream is depleted. The end result was a bit different but linked. I’ve played it…
Let’s Try A New Direction
So … following on from my last post, and directly connected to the subject of economic growth, I’ve been listening to Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell chat with Kate Raworth about Doughnut Economics I saw Kate Raworth a couple of years ago at the Greenbelt Festival and she is going to be there again this…
Growth, Growth, Growth, Growth, Growth
I’ve been watching the election campaign, especially what the Labour Party are pitching to us. So, as I’ve been thinking about this, the word growth has been a big aspect of what Keir Starmer has been talking about. I came across this website – taxresearch.co.uk – here’s a snippet “I don’t believe in growth as…
The World Of Wet Land
I picked up a book in a second bookshop that had an interesting cover. Then I read a random few sentences and thought … mmhh, this looks interesting. It’s a book called Four Fields, by Tim Dee. The writing is beautiful, and I really wanted to write a song after reading the first two chapters.…
This Is Something I Regret
So I have been thinking deeply about the forthcoming General Election. I live in a constituency (Gloucester) that has had a Conservative MP for some years- you have to go back to the early 2000’s to see a different colour. But it is one of the seats that Labour might hope to win this time…
Every Day Is Nakba Day
Today is May 15th, the day when Palestinians mark the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 to make room for the Jews coming from Europe to settle in Palestine. The name Nakba means catastrophe or disaster. Nakba Day is generally commemorated on 15 May, the day after the date in the Gregorian calendar of…
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