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Carousel Choices
Last night we watched the Rogers and Hammerstein 1945 musical Carousel. With issues of domestic violence. knife crime and single parent families… with themes of ambition, dreams and hope… death, grief and regret… it speaks to life today. Set in a fishing community on the Maine coastline, Carousel tells the story of carousel worker…
When One Handful is OK
This morning, I read, ‘Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.’ It set me musing… …Hearing motivational speakers telling me that I can achieve anything if I set my mind to it …Hearing parents tell me that only the best is good enough for their child …Hearing…
Old Deuteronomy and Refuges
As a child I knew of TS Elliot’s poems in ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’; more recently I’ve watched the stage musical adaption ‘Cats’… The elderly cat leader and patriarch is ‘Old Deuteronomy’ – named after the biblical book. In the Book of Deuteronomy Moses is speaking to Israel before they enter their Promised…
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