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Tag: politics

Advent meditation

I like to think of myself as a pretty consistent person. I look askance with a certain smugness at the … More

Advent, Christmas, Joni Mitchell, Life Lessons, Music, politics, The World Cup

The Anti-Refugee Bill explained

Happy new year, everyone. I am interrupting my current series of Lifesaving Lines post to encourage you to watch a … More

Anti-Refugee Bill, Migrants, Nationality and Borders Bill, politics, Priti Patel, Refugees

Lifesaving Lines: Indelible, Miraculous, by Julia Darling

I have been thinking a lot about the poetry of Julia Darling this week. Her work became essential to me … More

Amos Trust, Anti-Refugee Bill, breast cancer, Cancer, Freedom From Torture, Israel Palestine, Julia Darling, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics

Be kind

Be Kind Not merely because Henry James saidthere were but four rules of life—be kind be kind be kind be … More

Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Michael Blumenthal, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics, US Election 2020

Empathy and New Year

Empathy and New Year A notion like that of empathy inspires great distrust in us, because it connotes a further … More

Empathy, James Schuyler, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, New Year Poems, New York Poets, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry

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

Austerity, Brexit, Climate Change, Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Grief, Cyclone Idai, ERG, Facebook, Jeremy Corbyn, politics, Theresa May

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

Anne Lamott, anti-Semitism, Assange, Bird by Bird, Brexit, Chelsea Football Club, Climate Change, Climate Change Grief, Diane Abbott, Julian Assange, Labour, politics, Racism

The recess (LentBlog35)

As we get to the business end of Lent, in the week the church still names Holy, I have been … More

Brexit, Climate Change, Easter, Holy Week, Lent, Life Lessons, mindfulness, politics, Prayer, Presence, Silence, Solitude

Advertisement (LentBlog33)

  I wrote the poem below in the summer of 2015. David Cameron had won a slim majority in the … More

Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics, Smith Doorstop, Tim Dooley, Writing Poems, Writing Process, Writing Workshops

From Brussels With Love (LentBlog32)

Well, by tomorrow night, we might be out. Crashed out with no deal or sailing into a bright future presaged … More

Brexit, Brian Eno, Creativity, Education, From Brussels With Love, Harold Budd, Listening to Music, Music, politics, Richard Jobson, The Durutti Column

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

Being a Poet, Brexit, Climate Change, Life Lessons, Mark Hollis, mindfulness, New Grass, politics, Presence, Talk Talk, The Durutti Column

Doing a Likely Lads (LentBlog19)

Lying awake last night wondering what had become of Theresa May’s deal in Parliament it suddenly occurred to me that … More

Brexit, Likely Lads, mindfulness, politics, Presence, Raymond Carver, Shawna Lemay, Social Media, The Blue Nile, Theresa May

A week off (LentBlog18)

I’m hoping that by the end of the week we may be nearer to a political solution to the national … More

Brexit, Creativity, Life Lessons, mindfulness, People’s Vote March, politics, Presence, Silence, Solitude

#PutItToThePeopleMarch (LentBlogs17)

I saw: old hippies, new hippies, punks, preppies, grandmothers, babes in arms, parents, wrinklies, men in tweeds, trombonists, anarchists, Star … More

Brexit, People’s Vote, People’s Vote March, politics, Second Referendum

Why I can’t vote Labour at the next election (LentBlog12)

I never wanted to have to say this. I never imagined I would. But I have finally lost the plot … More

anti-Semitism, Ben Bradshaw, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour, Life Lessons, People’s Vote, politics

The Year of Living Deeply 8: Doing One Thing

I am really bad at doing one thing. If I am chopping an onion, I am listening to the radio. … More

Brexit, Cancer, Fighting Cancer, Lymphoma, mindfulness, Nick Boles, Nick Robinson, politics, Presence, Remission

Why must we write?

The poem that came into my mind on waking up this morning and hearing the General Election result is Mark … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creative Process, General Election 2015, Jab, Life Lessons, Mark Halliday, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, The Missing Poem, Trusting in the Process, Why Must We Write?, Writing, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Philip Gould: I would not wish to have died the person I was

via bbc.co.uk

Cancer, Life Lessons, Philip Gould, politics, Presence, Spirituality

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