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We normally link the robin with Christmas
Burning his breast, tending
the fire to keep the Christ child warm.
 
But there is also a legend that the robin
was [Read More]

The well known psychologist Carl Jung
claimed that he had never met a patient
over forty whose unhappiness did not have
its roots in the fear of death.
 
Another [Read More]

Having taught in a secondary school
 
I have often wondered why adolescents get so tired!
 
It was George Balanchine, the late ballet master,
 
who provided an answer? And [Read More]

ADDICTIONS
 
St Augustine claimed that God always wants to give us what we need but our hands are so full of things to which we are [Read More]

TIME
 
For us, living carefully regulated lives,
it is good to disrupt our time on occasion…..
 
This happened to Monk Phoenix.
One day he was saying his
breviary in the [Read More]

John Lee, the ‘man they couldn’t hang’,
was sentenced to death in 1885 for murdering his employer.
Three times they tried to hang him and three times
the [Read More]