'It's not my first blue plaque,’, explained Michael. His first was Noel Coward. But even so, I felt honoured to be invited to accompany Michael - it was after all Dr Who. (MUSIC FADES UP) William Hartnell was the first Doctor, and Michael, fresh out of Oxford and a youthful 20, was directing one of… Continue reading The first Dr Who remembered
Socratic Dialogue Training London – Reflections
Reflections on Socratic Dialogue training London October 2018 It was the gentle process of reaching a consensus that I took away with me that weekend, with Dieter Krohn and the Secret Society of Socratic apprentices who’d first met at the Eagle, Cambridge those heady August days. Deiter and the girls for were all women, all… Continue reading Socratic Dialogue Training London – Reflections
East Coast line walk no 1- OultonBroad to Beccles along Angels way.
Mischa laughed when I told her. "So this is your way of relaxing and changing your life so its not so busy?" Somehow I just so needed to walk, and alone with dogs. A 10 mile flat walk on a stunning September day, what could be more perfect? Two things - a delicious picnic (polytunnel… Continue reading East Coast line walk no 1- OultonBroad to Beccles along Angels way.
Kent – Visiting Tim on way to Kate and Dan’s wedding and Dungeness
Tim Dungeoness, where I found Derek Jarman's (1942-1994) home. I find later that he is not known by the younger generation, but by us who remember the AIDs fear and Jarman's on pivotal role in speaking out with his honest campaign about homosexuality, and his public fight for gay rights and his personal struggle with… Continue reading Kent – Visiting Tim on way to Kate and Dan’s wedding and Dungeness
Laurence Edwards
Others Poems – Monet refuses the Operation
Sent to be by Leslie. Monet refuses the Operation Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to… Continue reading Others Poems – Monet refuses the Operation
Socratic Dialogue Training Cambridge
Sixth Colloquium on Dialogical Practice and Dialogical Philosophising, St Catharine´s College, Cambridge, 6-10 August 2018 A basic background Following the dialogical procedures recorded by Plato in early dialogues of Socrates, Socratic Dialogue enables ordinary people to philosophise with the aim of enriching and informing civic life. Non specialised way of philosophising that has been furthered… Continue reading Socratic Dialogue Training Cambridge
Festivals 2018 – Buddhafield
Buddhafield July 2018 “And where is your voice from?’ a Navaho Indian returned my question to him back to me, and suddenly Suffolk seemed so far away and I am so relieved to find this field which kept reminding me of India all those years ago. I tried but could not hold Henry’s suggestion to… Continue reading Festivals 2018 – Buddhafield
Festivals – July 2018 – Lattitude
This was the year of festivals, I'd written it into my New Year resolutions and I actually did it. Late developer or what. I booked WOMAD, Buddhafield, Henry told me of Buddhafield, the usual Folk East, and Latitude. This write up has never been finished, but I'm putting in the few notes I took then… Continue reading Festivals – July 2018 – Lattitude
Tim, Isle of Sheppey and Maidens
Tim will always have a place in this wood. After the auction, after the 20 days, after the payment of the complete amount I took a bottle of champagne to the wood, with a chair and a glass, and the dog Kali naturally. I emptied the bubbling wine, walked the edges of the wood, watched… Continue reading Tim, Isle of Sheppey and Maidens
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