A Year of Inspirers (17): “The earth, the seas, the light…” of Thomas Traherne

. He is the poet of joy and ecstatic lines: . . He is the poet of wonder: . . Thomas Traherne, who is commemorated on 10th October, wrote about "flow" long before the contemporary psychologist Csikszentmihalyi did... . . Thomas Traherne's poetry was only discovered in the 20th century, though he lived in the …

A Year of Inspirers (13) – “Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”, and the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hopkins was so sensitive to the beauty of nature, he prized the “wildness” and “wilderness” of life on our earth: “What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” (From ‘Inversnaid' https://www.bartleby.com/122/33.html) On …

A Month of Inspirers (8) – The Traveller

There is one who leaves their home country and travels to a new place, gazing at the stars as he goes. He is far from perfect. He lies, he is not pure in all his ways, on one extraordinary occasion he considered violence. He reminds me that sometimes it is right to leave, no matter …

A Month of Inspirers (6) – The Celts

Or to be precise, Celtic Christianity. One of the fascinations of Celtic Christianity is that there's a lot that we don't know! But many people find what we do know both intriguing and inspiring, pushing us out into unchartered waters, like the Celtic Christians used to do. The image for this post is taken from …