Quodlibet

First of all, the tests for mylenoma came back negative. I can't remember ever feeling quite so relieved. So what IS causing my back pai...

When I preach the gospel to the crucified people I meet on the streets, I hold hands and say little beyond, "Know who you really are. I...

Of course you're not! You are as empathetic as the next person, I'm certain of it. And yet ... And yet ... Taking the focus off you...

I am overcome, right now, this minute, with an urge to write. I wouldn't get too concerned if I were you. Even if concern were your met...

Because I speak in tongues - not an unusual accomplishment for a Pentecostal, but slightly embarrassing for a Roman Catholic, someone asked ...

I have been attending to your soul for you, as I know many of you are too busy to do so for yourself. It's a great work. Once, short...

It begins with noticing that the floor needs cleaning and finding, for the very first time, that to bend down with a dustpan and brush, is r...

Two weeks ago I met with like-minded people to explore death. It's a queer thing, death. We don't much want to talk about it, which ...

... Said what they really thought, there would be an outpouring of wisdom"  So a nice lady called Marianne, Tweeted today and I laughed...

I had to have two goes at it:this is because I am not prone to giving up. This stubborn adherence to the unlikely, the improbable and the ha...

I am reading, slowly, The Immortal Diamond  by Father Richard Rohr, my teacher, who has played a guest role here in the past. Richard knows,...

I was idling through Twitter yesterday, when I came across this link: http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/five-important-things-w...

God knows how. It's a mystery. I expect you think I'm being metaphorical on the pendulum question. Poets have the write. But no. Thi...

In my absence, Dear Reader, I have been busy with You Tube, furthering my  search for Enlightenment. I confess to feeling rather enlightened...

I am living, for a spell. In a country at war. Coming from another country at war, I realised with a shock, though I  hardly ever think abou...

My friend Wendy and I are utterly unalike. She is highly intelligent, militantly atheistic, acerbic in her opinions,  (especially of men) an...

"Say Ommm to keep your genes healthy." So advises an article that caught my eye in this week's 'New Scientist'. I ...

I have to come clean. I don't believe in Fluffy-God. I did. Once or twice, when the sky was cloudless and I didn't know very much....

When a man (sic) has once broken through the paper walls of everyday circumstance, those unsubstantial walls that hold so many of us securel...