creating change without shouting
There is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in + Leonard Cohen, from Anthem So where is the crack, the light in Ukraine now? Over the last few days, I’ve been drawn to walking through the little tunnel in the hillside opposite the farmhouse. It’s the original overflow from the Victorian … Read more
Yesterday was my birthday, and the very short poem I shared – Water – is the beautiful question I am currently holding. Today, I want to share an extraordinary poem by the young poet Gideon Heugh, which opens his new book of poetry, Rumours of Light. It feels timely. IT IS TIME Turn your gaze … Read more
Advent is from the Latin adventus: ‘coming’. However, this isn’t a vague ‘maybe something is around the corner’. It is active anticipation of coming into place, or view or even being. Yet how we wait makes a difference. Not to what is approaching, but to us and our seeing and being. There is peace – … Read more
We don’t like waiting. Or, if we decide to comply, we usually set limits. This long and no longer. Yet the earth isn’t like this. We don’t control when the sun rises. Nor when its rays reach a sheltered frosty hollow. It might never reach here. At least not today. I wonder, what difference would … Read more
We can see this as all there is. Or we can see that now is a part of a bigger whole. A story that invites us to play a small yet meaningful part for a brief moment in time. It all depends on how we look. And I know that just now it may be … Read more
Beauty is not always what we see at first sight. Perhaps it’s because we’re not expecting it and need to look from a different angle. Or what we see is still emerging. Like a newborn, this isn’t its finished form. This week I want to walk with the good words of John O’Donohue’s blessing For … Read more