Julian Summerhayes

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

This morning's stroll around the village.

It's very hard if you work in a firm that has a fixed mindset; being an outlier is one thing but being labelled awkward is something else.

Quiet, stillness, and prayer: it is only in these moments that we get to feel what "life" means — and I don't mean our life; I mean the life that's coursing through us at the speed of light and gives glory to those who came before us.

Beautiful photos Laine.

Good morning Rob; I hope you're keeping well. I'm not sure what you mean when you say "Most lawyers don't stall because they lack talent". Do you mean they don't progress to partner? Or they end up doing the same type of work? Most lawyers don't evolve because they're technicians, not entrepreneurs.

Beautiful, Paul. Heartwarming.

Where are we headed? “Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”― Isaac Asimov On my better days, I imagine a more beautiful world; but these, now, are few and far between. Mostly, I l…

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“Two duties belong to our souls. One is to reverently marvel. The other is humbly to endure, always taking pleasure in God. He wants us to remember that life is short and it won't be long until we clearly see, within him, all that we desire.”
― Julian of Norwich, The Showings of Julian of Norwich

Volunteers plant 800 trees at Wistman’s Wood in Dartmoor as restoration work continues

Well done, Duchy of Cornwall, Natural England, Moor Trees, Woodland Trust. Dartmoor needs more rainforest!

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YouTube video by THE PARABLE Letter To John Martin // Charles Bukowski

Bukowski had it right www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIz...

Being seen It won’t be long now before the sun is out and I’ll be sitting beneath these dappled trees, next to the river that runs through my village; I’ve prayed here often, sat on an old l…

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Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in a scene from the 1974 film The Conversation.

Tuesday

Great picture

thy will be done Imagine giving yourself totally to something or someone. This isn’t just about a messianic zeal (I had that with work) but trusting that you’re doing the right thing. I realise that som…

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“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
[Photo by Emre Ucar on Unsplash]

A quick stroll up over Dartmoor.

Losing my mind “How strange God’s ways are! He calls us to a union we do not understand. He calls us to a place of encounter which we cannot find. We search and search. Our silence reveals to us not a garde…

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“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis