Ray's Blog: January 2010
Potpourri
I jogged in Edinburgh's Holyrood Park, which had just become snow-free. So I thought. Packed ice on a climbing footpath sent me bang on my back, and up with a damaged wrist. Berwick Infirmary put it in a sling. It proved not to be broken.
Two teeth extracted...
The Worst Of Times And The Best Of Times
There are times in my life when others see in me only the glow of inspiring words on a page. There are times in my life when people see only the gashes of fragmented parts of my being. I am the same person. There are times when these two...
Can We Both Hibernate And Give?
We commit to 'go at winter's pace in winter' and use the season to store knowledge and prepare good infrastructures for the coming three seasons of growth, out-going and harvesting. You might call this 'positive hibernation'. But how do we avoid stagnation and do we cease to be...Snow, Sand And Crackpots
Holy Island is snowbound for the first time in the living memory of the younger generation. Meanwhile some of our members in Norway, who, unlike the British, take snow for granted, are walking in the sands of Egypt to the hermitages of Saint Antony and Saint Paul the Hermit....