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Posted on 10 April 2008
Wise Blogger John Davies said:
Travel: work worth doing
"Everything is travelling; from when and where and what it is to when and where and what it will be. Everything is travelling: there is no way out of it. But there are different ways of doing it. You can travel inertly like a stone which is hurled into the air. You can travel reluctantly like a dog which drags against the lead. You can embrace the necessity of travelling: you can leap and dance along." ...
Posted on 01 January 2008
Wise Blogger Sue Wallace said:
Christmas meditation
Christmas is a time of travelling. Of slippery roads and trips to far flung relatives, of cheering in the New Year and hobbling back home from hearing the bells in the city square with skinned heels, making a resolution never to buy another pair of 'those' shoes again....
Posted on 07 December 2007
Wise Blogger Matt Campbell said:
...San frontieres
A few weeks back, I met a Hungarian called Lazslo. ...
Posted on 04 December 2007
Wise Blogger Phil Andrews said:
Control freak like me
I’m struck by how often I carry on as though the daily routine that my life inhabits at any given time is going to stay the same forever. Of course, it’s changing all the time incrementally, but in such a way as to blind me to the impermanence of my life. ...
Posted on 23 November 2007
Wise Blogger Matt Campbell said:
Restless spirits
Last night, about midnight, unable to sleep, I stepped out of the bungalow where I live and walked to the middle of the old stone bridge that lies about three hundred yards away from my front door....
Posted on 08 October 2007
Wise Blogger Kester Brewin said:
The Two Halves of Life
"In the first half of my life I fought the Devil. In the second half, I fought God." Nikos Kazantzakis ...
Posted on 03 October 2007
Wise Blogger Emma Sergeant said:
Two become one...
I'm getting married... (thank you....in anticipation of your congratulations!) My fiance and I have recently begun the process of putting together a list of invitees for the big event. It has fascinated me that this has become an exercise in explaining who people are and what they mean to each of us... or our parents... or someone else already on the list. Clearly, our lives are an intricate pattern of inter-connections and complex relationships... ...
Posted on 27 September 2007
Wise Blogger Kester Brewin said:
What Has The Sacred River Lost?
Last night I went to hear Peter Ackroyd speak on the South Bank, ostensibly about his new book: Thames, Sacred River. It was a fine lecture on the thread of the sacred throughout the history of humanity's interaction with London's river, followed by a hilarious Q&A led by the Times' Literary Editor, who had a torrid time trying to get anything much out of the old curmudgeon....
Posted on 26 September 2007
Wise Blogger Lizzie Green said:
To me, to you
I was amazed to read this morning that the Chuckle Brothers are celebrating 20 years of their BBC children's show Chucklevision. I'm not sure what's more surprising - the fact that I'm old enough to remember their first appearance as 'Chucklehounds' in 1987, or that they're still making children laugh 20 years later. ...
Posted on 18 September 2007
Wise Blogger Phil Andrews said:
Everybody's happy nowadays
I've been there and done the guilt-motivated stuff to try and kick-start improvements in my character and life, and it certainly didn't lead to an increase of happiness, just to being more uptight and anxious about slipping up again and despairing about the treadmill I'd set before me....
Posted on 17 September 2007
Wise Blogger Steve Hollinghurst said:
Happy to be me?
I wonder how many people are really happy with themselves? The trouble is that there are so many voices suggesting we might have every reason not to be. ............ Spirituality ought to help here, shouldn't it? then why does it seem to make some people hate themselves even more?...
Posted on 16 September 2007
Wise Blogger John Davies said:
Two-and-a-half miles a day is too quick
I've been on the road over a fortnight now, and if I've learned one thing it is this. Two-and-a-half miles a day is far too quick. ...
Posted on 07 September 2007
Wise Blogger Lizzie Green said:
Moving on up
I seem to have spent a large proportion of the last few weeks moving stuff. Furniture, boxes, bags, suitcases… All the stuff that makes a life. That makes an empty house into a home. And you always have more of it than you think....
Posted on 05 September 2007
Wise Blogger Phil Andrews said:
Smile
I watched the latest instalment of Bruce Parry’s ‘Tribe’ series last night (http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/tribes/anuta/), in which he spent 3 weeks with the people of the island of Anuta, only half a mile in diameter in the middle of the Pacific, 70 miles from any other inhabited island – just a dot in the ocean....
Posted on 31 August 2007
Wise Blogger Matt Campbell said:
From the sublime to the ... what?
Well, Wise Traveller is fully launched - this site is live (and more blog postings and other material will be posted over the next fortnight - keep coming back and please comment if something here connects with you), we had a great launch event at the Greenbelt arts festival and we hope to keep the momentum going...
Posted on 18 August 2007
Wise Blogger Lizzie Green said:
Does happiness depend on 'achievements'?
Watching news reports about A Level results always makes me feel a bit nostalgic - and old!...
Posted on 15 August 2007
Wise Blogger Phil Andrews said:
Always on my mind
Been reading about the commemorations taking place at Graceland to mark 30 years since Elvis shuffled off his white jumpsuit and went to meet his maker. ...
Posted on 10 August 2007
Wise Blogger Matt Campbell said:
I think I’m falling in love with Britain's countryside
It was epic – biblical, even. From our hilly perspective, we bestrode the narrow world like colossi. Away to our left...
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loss
Loss, in all its forms, seems to characterise the human experience. It breaks us and re-shapes our lives in ways we would not choose. What can help us survive this process, even when we’ve no hope left inside?
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