Learning things involves listening. That is obvious - we listen to things we didn't know and we try and fit them into the jumble of impressions, facts, traditions and habits that go to make up the way we know anything. Descartes thought that the human mind was a bank slate, ready to receive sense impressions …
Continue reading The Church of England and the LLF/PLF Process: Listening and Learning
A bright sunny morning, but a cool breeze. Fifteen and a half kms later I am in the centre of Issoudun. On the way in I was getting very tired and dehydrated, so I bought a cold drink. There was a bench outside; I sat down to have a bit of a rest. A few …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 8.1 Issoudun and the little old man.
Day 3: Again, a misty start, but it seemed to hold the promise of something better later on. Breakfast at 8. Madame told me of her mother who had been born in Manchester, but who had ended up being married off and veiled in Lebanon, before escaping to Morocco (having been obliged to leave her …
Continue reading Camino Stage 1: Day 3.2 Chasnay to La Chapelle-Montlinard 22k
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