Category Archives: adaptation

Spiritual Discernment (Continued)

Posted on July 31, 2018 by coalfacecaring

What more is there to say? But then let us suppose that the ‘high wire’ artist singles me out from other bystanders with an invitation to “wheel me across” the same ravine “in (his) wheelbarrow”. Ah! That is different. As … Continue reading →

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“WHERE ‘ENDS MEET’ AND “FACT SEEMS STRANGER THAN FICTION””. (Cont’d)

Posted on December 14, 2017 by coalfacecaring

I learned that she lived alone in a hamlet cottage some 10 miles away and had travelled to Walsingham that afternoon, using the country bus service. She seemed far from well and in the early part of our conversation, related … Continue reading →

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“WHERE ‘ENDS MEET’ AND “FACT SEEMS STRANGER THAN FICTION””.

Posted on November 25, 2017 by coalfacecaring

At the time in question, my wife, our youngest son Martin and I were holidaying in East Anglia. Perhaps (and as the story unfolds you will readily perceive why) I should first tell you that for some time before (and … Continue reading →

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“WHERE ‘ENDS MEET’ .”.

Posted on November 18, 2017 by coalfacecaring

Having now ‘written out’ this correspondence in blog form, I cannot resist the feeling that the entire series requires one final and in its way, definitive word in order to draw together and ‘catalyse’ the contents of these postings, as … Continue reading →

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AN ENDING – OR A NEW BEGINNING? (Continued from prev. Blog.)

Posted on November 18, 2017 by coalfacecaring

It was, I believe, a first century Roman, Plotinus, who once observed that “Man is not unlike an amphibious creature. An amphibian can live equally well on land or in water; but to fulfil its “amphibianhood”, it requires both”. As … Continue reading →

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AN ENDING – OR A NEW BEGINNING? (Continued from prev. blog.)

Posted on November 4, 2017 by coalfacecaring

Now this brings me to what I am inclined to regard as the profoundly “within” or “foresightful” aspects of coping and which – such is my belief – can and often does greatly bolster and enhance overall capacity and confidence, … Continue reading →

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AN ENDING – OR A NEW BEGINNING? (Cont. from prev. blog.)

Posted on October 28, 2017 by coalfacecaring

Taking things a step further, certain fairly recent studies have reported evidence of a strong positive correlation between the pursuance of goals related to living meaningfully and an increase in, for example, natural killer (NK) cell activity. This has been … Continue reading →

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AN ENDING – OR A NEW BEGINNING?

Posted on October 28, 2017 by coalfacecaring

As I write out and post this particular blog, I want, if I may, both to acknowledge and, if possible, and catch a glimpse of that “something ayont”, with which Robert Louis Stevenson’s “byersman” (see blog dated ) to be … Continue reading →

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