We still need to bring in the New Year? We still need religious festivals to break up the months and engage our minds about time moving? Is it all about marking the year with points where we can have a change of pace and enjoy something different to the usual days? It is odd for…
Tag: Christmas
Celebrations
As everyone around gets ready for Christmas and Channukah thinking they deserve a break from all the bad and sad news and a little light relief there is no relief fro the planet or the terrible things we have done to the environment. There is no end to the suffering of animals and civilians in…
Christmas in London
I have been invited to spend Christmas in London, near Hampstead, with friends who are more like family than either of my families ever have been. Not at all sure what it will be like, the house is huge and I don’t think I have sat round a table of eleven diners since I was…
Christmas
Religions have a lifetime. People don’t really like to think about this because we are always looking for certainty and religions have often offered us some measure of security in our certainty, and the idea that they necessarily grow and fall is not sympathetic to the mind. But actually as we change so do they….
December, December
There was a time I could have started a chat about December with a welcome to the month of Christmas but marketing means it is more like welcome to the third and final month of Christmas. I recall seeing a TV show about the Amazon and some rain-forest tribesmen coming across a wild bee hive…
Christmas Spirit
Apart from the rum I put into the Christmas cake – far too much as it happens but I don’t hear the family complaining – this is the time of year one has to remember to take change out to put in the charity boxes in the shops. I wonder what they will do in…