Apologies for the delay, finally, we have found some free wi-fi in Seville! The Sevillanas are going somewhere. They walk with swinging steps and an air of purpose. Hands in pockets, head down solitary wanderers, or couples stepping it out whilst managing to be deep in conversation. Even in small groups, gathered to chat, young …
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The Ironies of Progress
“What ideas individuals attach to the word “Millennium” I know not; but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little if any misery and with intelligence and happiness improved an hundredfold; and no obstacle intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent …
Where there’s muck there’s honesty
I saw the film Made in Dagenham – set in 1968 and about the dispute which led to the equal pay act in Britain. It is not the attitudes which take me back – it is the griminess that evokes the era for me. Brick walls, crumbling concrete and a feeling of decay – old …
The shape of life
We are a being seeking shape. The energy of the world – or the shape created by all our interacting energies, can force shape on us by defining the space in which we can exist. If we are passive, we will be conforming in nature, shaped by outside forces. But if the shape allowed, differs …
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