Category: General
-
Trace a Fraught Frontier
Posted:
Where’s the fraught frontier between Mercia and East Anglia ? Guards were stationed here gazing out from within. And within was somewhere to die for. And without was someone to kill. I explored it once, that fraught frontier, now footpath between nettles. It was sunday and Cambridge families were out walking there after a good…
-
Making the Earth Whole
Posted:
The voice of truth is bound to be a lonely one. That would seem to be a rule in human life. For a race in question, it spells disaster. These three articles are worth reading, if you have not already read them : From the BBC From the Independent From today’s Observer … continue reading
-
The Establishing of Ground
Posted:
The reference here is to a book and an image I keep referring to. It is called “I and Thou” and is by Martin Buber. Buber compares two essential ways of reaching out beyond the Self to meet the world : one is I – It (my object) and the other I – Thou (my…
-
A Second Song of I and Thou
Posted:
There are two themes at work is this series of “songs”. One is I and Thou. The other is I and My Shadow. I am alternating the themes each day, like plaiting a piece of string. So for this third song, here is I and Thou again. Of course I and you are absolutely separate…