That camel guy, aka Sahel Steve, aka Steve Davies has had a baby, well more accurately Charlie had the baby, but Steve got involved! Welcome to the world Liberty Rose.
Brilliant news, so pleased for you, least you’ll have some good stories to read to her!
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One of the people whose name was mentioned a few times during the research for my book on New Monasticism in the Uk, was Tobias Jones whose book Utopian Dreams told of his journey around a number of communes, including Pilsdon in the south of England, which is one of the communities I look at too.
Tobias, it must be said, is a far better writer than me, and his book is very much worth reading if you are interested in community living of any sort.
Interesting to note by the way that he links P... Read Full Story
So I’m currently in India, where for the last couple of days I’ve been immersed in the world of garment manufacture, and trying to solve a nagging production issue, which has now been resolved – hurrah!
However, the world of business means that I’ve been living a very ‘unreal’ Indian existance, being picked up from one air-conditioned location and carried in an air-con car to another similar place. Even the factories are clean and well presented, with air-c... Read Full Story
First prize in the silly sounding names for saints list goes to dear old Homobonus, whose name literally means ‘good man’.
But on his feast day (November 13th) we should remember the people he is supposed to be patron of.
Homobonus was a medieval tailor and merchant, a man who believed the wealth he had inherited and earned was there for him to look after others with, and he maintained scrupulously honest accounts and gave generously to the poor.
Today we are all rich over here in... Read Full Story
I am personally using up the carbon allowance of a small town at the moment, with my second factory visit trip to India within six months on the cards for next week.
Although I dont buy into the carbon off setting thing, I am wondering about how I could pay back my grevious use of jet fuel, although as my brother pointed out, the fact that I am paying for one allotment to lie fallow at the moment is probably making me carbon neutral
Cheeky beggar.
So off to India on Monday, back on Friday, ... Read Full Story
Saint Martin of Tours, whose feast day is November 11th (tomorrow) in the West, as well as being something of a big noise in France, is also officially the patron saint of soldiers, but might I reckon just as well be the patron saint of conscientious objectors.
He was around in the fourth century AD, and was a real European, born in Hungary, growing up in Italy and ending up in France.
Martin, a forced conscript at the age of 15 into the Roman army in which his father had served as an office... Read Full Story
Or the strange fascination God’s people have with the world they’re in.
Stephen Stills was a great songwriter, and there’s no doubt ‘Love the one you’re with’ is a catchy song, which accounts for the fact that it’s been covered by gazillions of artists since Stills released it in the early 1970s.
But for me I find the amoral nature of the lyric fairly nauseating:
And if you can’t be with the one you love
Love the one you’re with
Love the o... Read Full Story
I recently got a copy of Robert Crumb’s illustrated book of Genesis for review. I’m not going to print my whole review here, it’s going elsewhere, but I am going to give a quick/short form review as I know lots of people will be interested in the book.
Of course Crumb is a justly famous artist, his mastery of pencil and pen is amazing, and the artwork in this version of the Genesis text is incredible.
Moreover he doesnt take any liberties with the text, it’s basically ... Read Full Story
So the book is progressing, which is kind of exciting. Because it is now out of my hands I dont really feel like its a real entity at the moment, except for brief flashes of excitement now and then, like today when I was sent a bunch of potential covers to have a look at, actually I thought there were about four really good options in the bunch, but one stood out as my favourite, and the same one was picked out by a couple of others I asked, so I now think I have an idea what the book will lo... Read Full Story
