Your Holiness

Currently, there is only one person in the world officially called ‘Your Holiness’ and I think we all know this person to be the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church. Well, it’s wonderful to recognise a person to be holy, but why is the Pope the...

Hello Darkness My Old Friend

You might be old enough to remember the above words from the song by Simon and Garfunkel (both 77 now) that became one of their most famous hits in 1966: The Sound of Silence. Darkness of despair and hopelessness seems to be sweeping the world...

Self Love – The Last Frontier

Love of self was the greatest challenge I had to grapple with as an ex-Catholic. At times I am still thrown by an intrusion of self-ridicule or self-condemnation from an ego heavily indoctrinated by false ideas of wrongness – just being wrong...

Sun and moon: a more inspired life

Sun and moon: a more inspired life

Greetings, I’ve had my head down quite like an introvert, writing to my heart’s content, escaping into the sunshine and my garden now and then. And the moon calls me as well. I was woken up twice in a row at around 3.30 in the morning recently...