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Overwhelm

Feeling daunted by all the demands of the New Year? Powerless in the face of all that’s going wrong in the world? Aren’t we all. We’re ‘in overwhelm’ – thoughts on escape… https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/overwhelm

Certainties

Navigating a complicated world, needing to be aware of everything around us, but at the same time staying focussed on our part in it  https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/certainties

The Bright side

A Happy New Year to all – and no more moaning?https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/the-bright-side

A little light

 Pain, horror set aside – a little light goes a long way   https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/a-little-light

Hope in the chaos

If we can’t hope, can’t celebrate, can’t reassert and rejoice in our common humanity we cease to be any use to ourselves or others. https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/hope-in-the-chaos

On Song

Voices lifted together in song – from Japanese tradition to Twickenham, with a bit of Handel thrown in https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/on-song

On Paradox and knowing

‘What we can’t know is liberating … long live vagueness, muddle, compromise – and liberation and inspiration.’ https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/on-paradox-and-knowing

To Care or not to Care

“Gay or straight, black, brown, or white, male or female or neither, she simply didn’t care…because it didn’t matter to her and she didn’t think it should matter to anyone else.” https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/to-care-or-not-to-care

Gunpowder, treason and plot

Parkin pigs and plot toffee, trick or treat and mischief. Which traditions persist? https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/remember-remember

An autumn day

Poets from Keats to Yeats have written about Autumn but how many of them swept leaves? https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/an-autumn-day