Last week my sister sent me a message asking me if I remembered when it was that we sat under the shade of a large Eucalyptus tree, in the patio of a local pub, in a small village in Wales. The village was where we spent four years of our childhood; the pub was run… Continue reading The seeds and saplings of our Lives…
So the day before yesterday, I posted a poem that spoke to me. I opened a poetry book at random and found a beautiful piece that reflected how I feel about my relationship with God and which seemed appropriate to the feast of Pentecost. One of the lines in the poem "You provide the tenderness,… Continue reading These habits we fall into…
This morning, which is the Christian festival of Pentecost...when the Apostles, Mary, and other followers of Jesus were gathered in a upper room and received the blessing of the Holy Spirit...I picked up a book that I'm fond of. It's called "Cuando llegas" (literal translation: "When you arrive") and it's a book of poetry by… Continue reading A Time for Alliances
Epiphany...and the lightest sprinkling of snow last night. I heard it. For a moment it felt like someone was in my flat with me. Like something very gentle had suddenly fallen...just one, isolated sound. And then I thought to myself "It's snow" as I turned over and went back to sleep. And later, on rising,… Continue reading Epiphany
Today is the day after Christmas, "Boxing Day" as it's called in the United Kingdom. It's a public holiday in that country and also in Cyprus, the country where I was born, because Cyprus was a British Colony, and it chose to retain that inherited holiday on independence day. I now live in Spain ,… Continue reading Worth repeating…
Last week I visited Poland for the first time. I went there to talk at a travel festival... ...and this was my presentation: "I first met Tomasz (who's organised this festival) 10 years ago on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. We met in a misty wood the evening before we both arrived in Santiago. … Continue reading Signposts for Another Way
Five years ago I posted a blog piece entitled 'Home thoughts from abroad'. At the time I was confined to an AirBnB apartment in the city of Logroño, on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. I was confined because it was the first Covid lockdown of 2020, I was waiting to continue my camino and,… Continue reading Home thoughts from abroad: Take 2
In March 2020 the Camino brought me to the city of Logroño in Spain, and the COVID lockdown kept me here until the end of June that year. That happenstance, coincidence or act of Divine Providence (depending on how we view life and what happens to us within it) enabled me to meet and spend… Continue reading Path of Peace…
Allow yourself to be gentle, to be kind.No need to force, no need to rush.Allow yourself to be, and to feel, different every day...to be human.Try to greet that difference with patience, acceptance and a pinch of curiosity. Allow your priorities and focusto be different every day but, always,with an underlying awarenessof the central purpose… Continue reading Just because it felt worth sharing…
As we move towards the end of the year, and the season of Advent, I've been reflecting on how this year began for me, when I spent 3 months living in (and taking care of) the home of a friend in the tiny village of Molinaseca on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. That settled… Continue reading Where no-one is harried and nothing is forced…
La Casa de Paz 