And then something says, “Face life!”

Reflection from ‘The Road Less Travelled’ — For the past weeks, I have been reading M Scott Peck’s ‘The Road Less Travelled’. The readings this week have been about our need to give things up. He writes, “…. for as we negotiate the curves and corners of our lives we must continually give up parts of ourselves.”…

Sinn Fein likely to make history today in Ireland — I want to write this before I know the result. Why do I have ‘an urgency’ as if I am writing my will as a dying man? I have lived in England for the last 28 years so even I am a little surprised that I am experiencing a mixture…

I like to get up at 6 am. I did this morning but after making my coffee my body decided it wanted more sleep. I woke after 9 am and the coffee was still waiting for me. It is a Bank Holiday here (the term Brits give to statutory holidays)…

Originally posted on blogger on 4th April 2015 — Last Sunday I attended church with Jimmy & Joan in Pheasey, a district of Birmingham. I heard the sermon, I enjoyed the singing but it was one of the congregation that stood out, the woman in question had the ability to welcome people with a hug and a kiss even…

Originally posted on Blogger 8th June 2013 — Last Sunday Joan and Jimmy from Birmingham visited us here. I first met Jimmy and Joan in 1988 at the ‘Eurofire’ Conference in Birmingham, I was 17 then. That conference changed my life and certainly my perspective on Ireland, it was there I had a dream in which the words…

Originally posted on Blogger 19th March 2016 — At least once a year, usually around this time, I make a trip to Birmingham. I made my first trip to Birmingham in 1988 aged 17. I was with a group of young people from N. Ireland and we were attending a ‘Eurofire’ conference at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC)…

J Krishnamurti — “Thought did not create the mountains” was one statement by Krishnamurti that impacted me. I had never considered that there are alternatives to thought such is the dominance of thinking on us. Somewhere I held a belief that we could think our way out of a problem. …

I left the microphone on as I wanted those on Zoom to hear the birds that we could hear as we sat in the Meetinghouse. My listening perhaps sharpened having been at the Krishnamurti Centre for a few days this week. Listening is an antidote to thinking. There was one…