Today I found that it's a lot easier to schedule a 'Rest Day' into our pilgrimage plan than to actually rest, body and soul. Stopping...

A study in green. Green of every hue and depth and saturation and brightness surrounded us today, from bracken and heather, grasses and...

Even hotter today and barely a moment of shade! We took the West Highland Way in the 'wrong' direction for today's route -southwards -...

Today's path took us up Glen Orchy from Dalmally on a track that led at times right by the River Orchy, at times rather more distant, but...

Hot. A gentle freshness in the intermittent breeze off the water, however, keeps us relaxed despite the swelter of the sun, the cars that...

Perspective? Thinking about what I pay attention to, and noticing that often the grander or bigger thing dominates; the thing I don't yet...

After a peaceful night wild camping, 20 long and hot miles through the mountains of Mull. Craignure Bunkhouse

Welcomed into the Abbey at 7am by Catriona the Warden, and blessed as we departed. 15.4 miles, wild camping

A long train-train-ferry-bus-ferry journey brought Luca and me to Iona on Saturday at the start of this very special pilgrimage. My one...

This is the time of year when often, in past years, I have been barely holding on to my sanity. Something in the post-Christmas months of...

How do you make a creative community project suitable for Covid times? Back when lockdown commenced, this was the question that...

This blog post was written for the London Centre for Spiritual Direction, where I trained and now work as a tutor on the Encounter course...

(post written in March 2020, at the start of the corona lockdown) 3 in the morning and awake. Again. This time not tossing and turning...

What does it take to get 'stuff' out of us and into the rest of the world? For months now I have simply failed to write - at least,...

Apple#638/ Day Zero A long, slow departure - a wrench, yes, with intermittent stabs of sudden sadness at all that I have left behind -...

Apple#637/ -1 It took me 3 days to stop feeling I need to do stuff here on the Queen Mary 2; or even to notice that I didn’t really want...

Apple#630/ -9 “You can be anyone and do anything you like in New York” they told me before I came here, and I believed them. And since my...

Apple#619/ -11 Time is a mystery: at least, shall I say, how I experience time can, to my unpredicting (even if by now familiarised)...

Apple#610 / -27 Seeds once fell on my land. Dispersed by hand, by wind, by bird and beast; seeds of many kinds, left to grow just where...

Apple#609/ -28 When we were planning our departure for the US two years ago, we were given this Ikea poster by Dave (brother) and Paula:...