Julian Summerhayes

Does anyone care? Oh, I’m sure they do, but about what? Mother earthAll sentient lifeHaving a rock-solid faithHaving enoughBeing kindNot losing our minds . . . What about love? Surely that is the apotheosis of…

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Crossing the bar The rubric is associated with death — see Tennyson’s poem. But what if it represented a metaphysical space or to be less prosaic, we crossed over from this world to something deeply spi…

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

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Workplace anxiety I rarely talk or write explicitly about “work”. It’s not just that I’m no longer enamoured with its purview and lexical exegesis, but I’m not drawn to it as a way of s…

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Moving inwards “Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat . . . Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.” ― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude Absent drive, ambition…

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“Only those for whom God is present in all things and who make the very best use of their reason, know what true peace is and truly possess heaven.”
― Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings

It's so stereotypical, don't you think? I have this sense that it would be good to have a new paradigm in British politics to renew our faith and hope in humanity. I mean, let's face it, if you took Reform at their word, you'd think it was all terrible when it's not.

Wise counsel from Derek Sivers sive.rs/off23

Let's just vote Greens at the next GE and have done with it. It can't be any worse than Labour, Reform and the non-existent Tories.

A Daffodil and some sunshine. Photo taken today here in Glastonbury.

somethings never change

“My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humoured; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.”

W. H. Auden, St. Marks Place, New York, March 3, 1960. Photograph by Richard Avedon.

Love these

'Moon (slips away .. )
Oil Paint Sketch

Tis a beautiful afternoon for a walk around the village.

Hell is a place with no limits.

Sensemaking And being found in appearance as a man,    he humbled himself    by becoming obedient to death—        even death on a cross! — Philippians 2:8 I’m lost. In this world. For now, I can&#…

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They never leave “I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,Taught by the heav’nly Muse to venture downThe dark descent, and up to reascend…”― John Milton, Paradise Lost Ashes to ashes, dust dust . . . but not …

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“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Genius . Enjoy your day Sir

Drifting along Sometimes, it takes great fortitude to keep going. Other times, life feels easy. Perhaps it’s all in the mind and, yet, I’m not persuaded of that POV, especially or more especially beca…

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The little pockets of space we used to have in the NHS have been gradually redefined as 'waste'. Space to respond well to a dynamic context; space to have MDTs to support good care; space for listening & to hear how everyone's doing.

It is not better for everything & everyone to be completely full.

An absence of belief “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” — Luke 16:13 I h…

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Choral Evensong - Exeter University - BBC Sounds From the University of Exeter Mary Harris Memorial Chapel.

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My Instagram page is a homage to the dogs.

I hate to say it but common sense prevailed for once and good on Hannah who I'm sure will make a brilliant MP.

“Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.”
― Matthew Fox, Original Blessing

When the lights go out I’ve been told by the WordPress wizards that this will be my 50th consecutive post. That’s good, but then again, I’m not one to monitor or take note of these things save to acknow…

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This morning's stroll around the village.

Renewing your mind Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the…

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“Many solitaries living in the desert have been lost because they lived like people in the world. It is better to live in a crowd and want to live a solitary life than to live in solitude and be longing all the time for company.”
― Benedicta Ward, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers