Sometimes life just gets in the sights, and the time for communicating beyond the face to face shrinks away so that there is nothing left. No blogging for a couple of weeks now. I read in many places that bloggers shouldn’t apologise for not blogging. It’s like starting a speech with “unaccustomed as I am … Read more
Four-Fold Way I was pointed to this site from Dave Pollard’s blog (How to save the world – see the list of sites to the right). Angeles Arrien has developed the Four-Fold Way. It sets out four ways – the way of the warrior, the way of the healer, the way of the teacher and … Read more
I stumbled across this weblog host, based in Ireland. The system is based on WordPress technology. I use blogger at the moment and have done for over 2 years now. I like what blogger does. There is just one key thing which blogger can’t do. It doesn’t have the facility to sort posts into categories … Read more
I mentioned recently that I was due to give a reading at our local poetry group on the first Thursday in July. There were about 60 people gathered for the evening. It was the same day as the bombings in London, so there was an air of sadness and shock hanging over the audience. Earlier … Read more
A change in job circumstances is having an impact on my usual habits and patterns. Regular posting will resume once I have some rhythms and timings sorted out.
Yes, I know that this is a 2 year old piece of music. Sometimes CDs sit in my collection for a while – I think they are good and enjoy them, but don’t really rave about them because I haven’t had the time to listen to them for long enough to draw out what is … Read more
I am due to give a poetry reading at a local poetry group at the end of next week, so I am busy choosing poems to fill the 10 minute slot which I have available. I’m going to take the selection from “avenues of in between”. Here is one which I intend to use: I … Read more
Treasures in full: Shakespeare’s plays, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Gutenberg’s Bible This is well worth a visit. I have to confess to being a bit of a library geek. I love looking at books. When I was a student (many years ago!) I used to spend hours in the special collection in the University Library looking … Read more
We went for a walk on the common near to where we live. In the middle is a cluster of rocks called Thor’s Rock – it is a stunning piece of sandstone. Or at least it was until the local population felt the need to carve their names on every inch of it.
I love looking at other people’s playlists, so I thought I would post another one of mine. There are a few CDs that are really making a mark on me at the moment, so I thought they were worth a mention: 1. Jon Hassell – Maarifa Street I bought this a few weeks ago, and … Read more