A Disorderly Retirement
I tend to skim the Letters to the Editor in our newspaper, but this week my attention was caught by one in particular. The writer was speculating that various things would become obsolete with the passing of his generation. I imagine he’s in his 60s or 70s. He thinks those wayward younger generations will no…
I’ve been thinking about saints this week, for various reasons. I’m doing an online course with the National Gallery and saints crop up a lot in paintings. I was also reading that the Catholic church has started proceedings to canonise a 21-year-old man called Pedro Ballester, who died in 2018. The First Gen Z saint,…
I’m home from my travels and wondering why it’s been so long since I wrote a blog. I have been away for five weeks, but I have no explanation for the silence before that. One of the many perks of travelling is that you return home with a fresh view on your own life. On…