Contact RobI get a message from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT). The British Government has won its appeal against a ruling in the High Court that it acted unlawfully by halting the Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE’s Saudi arms deals.
This is terrible, terrible news. At first I misread it. I couldn’t believe my […]
Here are four nice sharp planes or chisels which I often take into my hand when I’m shaping my sentences, or getting a writing ready for the reader.
These are simply the tools I like and use myself. I know you’ve a good sound kit of your own.
1 Peter Brown says: Whenever […]
A man says: “It puzzles me my childhood seemed to have nothing in it to justify the pain it aroused”. Oh yeah?
I’m interested, that he could have gone on believing that.
He is in midlife now, but only a few days ago he got yet another letter from his aged, vulnerable mother, complaining about his harsh […]
I’ve spent many hours wondering about trust. What is trust?
It seems to me (just now) that there are two parts to trust.
On the one hand, there is safety.
To some extent we can teach a person listening how to evoke a sense of safety; and can teach a person trying to feel a way through some […]
Infinity. A friend says it’s round and black, and he has no trouble at all in imagining it. I would say no. We can’t imagine infinity; we can only conceive it.
Somebody says: “Yet we conceive of infinity as an object”.
Do we? Only, I reckon, as “love” is an object, or “size”. It’s rendered as […]
A while ago, I went to a piano teachers’ conference, and found it inspiring. Also humbling. NFs can’t really play the piano, I guess.
That reminds me. I’m thinking that the Myers-Briggs Jungian personality inventory needs re-shaped.
Introvert-extrovert is a global mode of being, which colours your type, whatever it is. I would leave it out most […]
It came to me this morning, that I am still missing Jean very much, after some years.
Her wonderful eyes. Her integrity. Her vigour. Her poetry.
Her love of nature. Her kindness and sincerity.
Her flame-like passion, in and for life.
Her sudden anger, usually on somebody else’s behalf, and her equal sudden forgiveness.
I walked by the sea with […]
Some time ago, a friend asked, “Do you believe that ethics is the engine that drives Focusing with a partner?”
I would love that to be so, and (partly) I think it is so. I reckon it should be so, but that the wells of creative knowing are frequently poisoned by the prevailing ideology in which […]
Albert Camus writes, “There is a will to live without rejecting anything of life which is the virtue I honour most in this world”. That sits curiously next to John Ruskin’s teaching that “There is no wealth but life”.
Camus is talking about experiencing, Ruskin about economics: but when, as an economist, you come to understand […]
Mozart says, “I do not begin to compose, until I can feel the piece like an apple in the palm of my hand”.
That is interesting - both homely and astonishing.
For how is it possible, to have a movement in time and sound sitting there like a thing which one holds and touches and tastes and […]