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Comment on An Unknown Woman by Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:42:24 +0000

I came across this book in the 1980s I think, in a second-hand bookshop in Hampstead. I still have it on my shelf, a small battered US paperback with the original jacket and yellowed pages. I don’t know how many times I’ve read it, but quite a few. It made a huge impression on me, as I now know it has on many others. I think this may be because she does what so many of us should, but never actually do – leave your life behind and spend a long period in quietness and self-reflection. I do remember the author’s feelings about her distant mother, her desire for some kind of success both in her career and in her relationships, and her sense that she could find an ‘answer’ to her problems, and then that in the end, this didn’t matter – she gave up her endless and exhausting self-questioning just to live in the moment. It’s a fine, fine book.

Comment on The Seaborne by A G Rivett – the inside story by Brynglasbooks

Brynglasbooks — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:50:36 +0000

Yes indeed, I’m already well into the first draft of the last book of the trilogy, The Shareg. (Anyone who doesn’t know what a shareg is need only read the first two books!) Dhion and Shinane, now with four lively children, Morag and Micheil and Sorcha and the others all have a part to play. As the conflict foreshadowed in The Priest’s Wife moves to its climax, so also the story of John Finlay is brought full circle. And a body is washed up on the beach at Sandwood Bay.
When’s it coming out? When it’s ready! We will be sure to let you know. A G Rivett

Comment on The Seaborne by A G Rivett – the inside story by Rebecca & Roy www.sandhaven.net

Rebecca & Roy www.sandhaven.net — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:43:53 +0000

Dear both,… following your brief stay with us here at Sandhaven (Findhorn) we have just journeyed through The Seaborne and the Priests wife… reading aloud to each other every evening and taking the powerful story line into our dreams. So now we’re wondering…what news of the third? Will we see any of the same characters?
Thank you for recreating a world so different from our modern one..but where we can see reflected many of the same themes and longings.

Comment on “Godʼs back!” by Mary Ashdown

Mary Ashdown — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:15:13 +0000

Well said Gillian.
Indeed – here’s to the living individual experience of this awesome world and the uplifting communion of souls.

Comment on “Godʼs back!” by Brynglasbooks

Brynglasbooks — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 13:19:51 +0000

In reply to Janey.

Seeing God as both Mother and Father is a theme that runs right through The Priest’s Wife, due to be published by Pantolwen Press late March. But not all the characters agree, and the outworking of the conflict – both internal and external – is a strong narrative thread. Gillian

Comment on “Godʼs back!” by Janey

Janey — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 23:43:51 +0000

interesting thoughts Gillian .. the thing about ‘ god ‘ is that she never went away … like Thich Nhat Hahn’s interbeing…. i love how so many paths of thought point to the same things … I like the sound of Alyosha & his lived experience .. maybe i should finally read the Brothers Karamazov …

Comment on “Godʼs back!” by Maggie H

Maggie H — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 10:00:59 +0000

A beautifully written and thoughtful post. Many Protestants say all those who are part of the Church are saints – for example Paul in Colossians 1:1-2. Our understanding of God has definitely evolved to the modern view that God is principally love (as well as mercy and justice etc). When we manifest these qualities then we participate in the nature of God. And I agree about intentionality – that God is creation, meaning and purpose which is in the very fabric of the universe. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and provoking much productive musing!

Comment on “Godʼs back!” by John Carpenter

John Carpenter — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:51:19 +0000

Here’s to the experience that animates ‘the true philosophy’. Enjoyed this blog post.

Comment on Heading for the Light by Sarah Early

Sarah Early — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:25:56 +0000

I have not yet done with darkness, but as the frost eases, may all beings find peace…

Comment on Nature and Us by Elizabeth Jones

Elizabeth Jones — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:07:52 +0000

The Dark Optimism website and the work of Shaun Chamberlin is a green shoot of hope in a disturbed and disturbing world.