I have never succumbed to the lure of Twitter, yet today I was sorry to read that Stephen Fry had been subject to negative comments and had considered stopping his posts. I know, it doesn’t make sense. I just like the idea of a highly connected world.
OK – I admit to being reactionary. Sky have changed their viewing details to give more information on their planner. All very well except for those with less than perfect eyesight! Serves me right for the times I have sighed over people who didn’t like change.
A news story online really upset me today. No….. I am not going to repeat it, why should anyone reading this have to go through the same upset after all. But it set me to thinking about how much of a distressing and highly emotive nature is disseminated to us in the name of information. I suspect I am going to sound like a dinosaur herein, but I want to live in a hopeful and peaceful and happy world. I guess I am talking about heaven. Now there is something to hope for.
So this is what the media storm is about…..
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Why is it that when the clocks change one loses the benefit of the extra hour by worrying about the right time?
Guess it says something about my state of mind.
I have probably quoted this before; it comes from May Sarton’s “At Seventy: A Journal”. However it is well worth repeating. Author Linda S Leonard refers to Heidegger whom she calls her spiritual father.
Time is like an ever-moving spiral, he suggests. The future continually comes toward us but it meets us with our past at each moment of the immediate present. Each time this process happens we are confronted with mysterious new levels of our being. We must meet the unknown future by bringing to bear everything that has been shaped by us in the past.
This strikes me afresh, particularly in the context of understanding more of people who have died. And it also fits with our “Living Questions” course, where we examine the hard questions of the Christian faith.
The postal strike doesn’t seem to be happening here in Dalamory. The dog had her usual cuddle from the postman first thing and a pile of unopened envelopes adds to the paperclog on my desk. Makes me think about the years when admin work took up a large part of every day. Nowadays, the equivalent of “clerks” are stuck behind computer screens with the tyranny of the Call Centre going on all around them. Perhaps that explains why I enjoy watching period programmes on TV. Life was taken at a slower pace.
On second thoughts I enjoy the excitement and buzz of the internet too much to wish to indulge in any real time travel.
Busy day with family visitors and I have only just done my “homework” for the Living Questions discussion tonight. Did I ever really understand all of this at University? Very interesting and much food for thought.
The annual rutt has started. Stags are roaring out their prowess round the mountains and glens. An amazing sound.
