Latest Thought for the Week

This year I’m watching the steady increase in daylight hours with heightened interest, along with the appearance of the blue of iris flowers and the yellow of daffodils in my garden.

Last week, BBC Radio 4’s Positive Thinking explored the question of ‘how to be happy’.

At our Lent Group in which we are reflecting on John’s Gospel, this week we looked at the Wedding of Cana.

In her poem, Prospective Immigrants, Please Note, Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), invites her readers to consider a rich definition of immigrants.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th century poem Parlement of Foules contains what is probably the first written reference to the idea that St. Valentine’s Day is a special day for lovers.

The pandemic, undiscriminating in its cruelty, has claimed the life of Captain Sir Tom Moore, aged 100.

I’m generally an optimistic person.

I wonder if you saw Rocks this autumn?

2020 will be a year that we will never forget and 2021 is starting in the same mould, although let’s pray that we remember it as the year that the pandemic is brought under control.