Do you have memories of favourite childhood games? Tag or ‘It’, Stuck in the Mud, Bulldog – which I never understood the rules of but was repeatedly banned because it was too violent – and that was in an all-girls convent school! Hide and seek was always particularly exciting because you couldn’t play it just …
The Plank in my Eye
Recently, our reading in church included Jesus’ proverbial words: ‘Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbour, “Let me take the speck out of your eye”, while the log is in your own eye?’ Exploring …
Interference and Noise
I recently came across this painting from Sienna, which now lives in Hull, having been saved for the nation from an overseas sale, and then spent 4 years at the National Gallery undergoing restoration. Christ between Saints Paul and Peter, Pietro Lorenzetti, c. 1320 It depicts Peter with his keys to the kingdom of heaven …
Polarised
Since 2003, the American dictionary publishing company, Merriam-Webster, chooses a ‘Word of the Year’ which reflects key events or global preoccupations and is being widely used in the media. In 2020, you might be able to guess, it was pandemic; 2021 – vaccination; 2022 – gaslighting; 2023 – authentic, perhaps as people increasingly began to …