The kitchen drawers broke some months ago. At first I identified that the problem was a simple matter of getting…
Surrender
“One of the special things about knowing death is close is that is easier to re-centre life on things other…
Alexei Navalny
Sometime last year I listened to the Slow Newscast episode The trials of Alexei Navalny. It takes you through the…
The Great Acceleration
At the start of the year I reconciled myself to needing to begin using AI. I felt like I crossed…
Thoughts on 2023
I feel immensely fortunate. I’ve had a really good year. In anticipation of the need to perhaps engineer some of…
The owl, the fox, the ocean by the village, and God
I fell in love with a poem called ‘The Other’ I read close to the beginning of this year by…
Sitting in the dark
When I was younger, an advent calendar was all about the countdown to Christmas. This was an especially exciting sort…
How the insurance industry is financing fire
One of the first things I was introduced to in philosophy was the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning. Deductive…
taken, blessed, broken, given
The Lord is here. | All – His Spirit is with us. Lift up your hearts. | All – We lift them to the…
On the pit of an apricot
One of the joys of travelling overland is that each point of your journey is connected to the previous point,…
Waving flashlights
“I thought that was it, that I was going to die. We could see our neighbours waving flashlights. In just…
Blessed are the parkrunners
A remix of the Sermon on the Mount. Blessed are the parkrunners, for theirs is the Saturday morning.Blessed are those who…