JOY
As I’ve struggled to work out how to respond to events in the Ukraine I came across some inspiring words by William Sieghart. Commenting on a poem by Mary Oliver (‘Don’t Hesitate‘) he points out that the world has always been bleak but that joy enriches it – and is a persistent weed we can’t, […]
Hearing my song
As the attention of the world is focussed on Ukraine, I expected to be writing about autocracy, war crimes and the humanitarian crisis but my eye was caught by an article about the climate emergency. Clearly this is still with us – and the conflict is almost certainly worsening things. We can hope for an […]