The JFK murder
This essay about a 50 year old murder is written for all those who, like me, have not thought about that crime in any detail (the few of us!) and … Continue reading
Memory stories
I started reading about the age of four. I can still remember a collection of books my parents gave me when I was five. There was a copy of Aesop’s … Continue reading
The Eve of Destruction
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. (TS Eliot The Hollow Men 1925) Friends are hinting … Continue reading
Apocalypse why?
One of my neighbours tells me she has found a new interest in religion which gives her much comfort. In particular she likes to read the bible. I know she’s … Continue reading
History in the bible
When I was little I was taught in school about religion. But it wasn’t all about god and angels and the devil and sin and the soul. We learned about … Continue reading
Universe of Wonders
Wonders of the Universe was a cosmology series on BBC, presented by Brian Cox in 2011, which dared to go back to where science originally came from: metaphysics. (I was … Continue reading
Three Journeys to the West
Xuanzang was a seventh century AD Buddhist monk from Szechuan in China who made an epic journey across central Asia to India in search of the true words of the … Continue reading
