First published on 1st April, 2019 – A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change … More
Tag: Climate Change
What you read in 2019
Here are my most popular blog posts of 2019. As you will have seen, I am taking a brief sabbatical … More
Who are you influencing?
In Mind in Society, his seminal book on learning and thinking, the Russian philosopher and psychologist Lev Vygotsky said this: … More
Climate Sorrow: A found poem, by Susie Orbach
Climate Sorrow To comeinto knowingis to comeinto sorrow. A sorrowthat arrivesas a thud,deadening and fearful.Sorrowis hardto bear. With sorrowcomes griefand … More
Weather vs climate (LentBlog38)
The main difference between weather and climate is the timescale that they each refer to. Weather describes the conditions of the … More
On Diane Abbott and Assange -Meditation on a line by Anne Lamott (LentBlog37)
There’s an old Mel Brooks routine where the psychiatrist tells his patient, “Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli … More
The recess (LentBlog35)
As we get to the business end of Lent, in the week the church still names Holy, I have been … More
My Brexit week off (LentBlog25)
I’ll admit it straight away: I didn’t last the whole week. Sometime on Friday evening I switched the radio … More
Climate change grief: some resources (LentBlog23)
A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change conversion’, not from unbelief to belief, but … More
Meditation on a line by Rebecca Goss (LentBlog15)
Towards the end of her Greenbelt Festival poetry reading Q and A with Sasha Dugdale in 2017, Rebecca Goss said … More
My climate change conversion (LentBlog13)
There I was, a normal Saturday, coffee and The Guardian, propped up in bed with the old iPad, flicking through … More
Lifesaving Poems: Jo Shapcott’s ‘Era’
As I say in my full length review of Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability, really good books about cancer are rare. Really … More
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