At 8.15 this morning the winter sun blazed through the sheet glass windows of the dining hall of the retreat centre. People were moving about, sprinkling raisins and seeds onto porridge, waiting for toast to pop. Steam from the stainless steel cafetieres curled softly upward in the bright air and then vanished. People were returning […]

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I go away for a couple of days with a group of colleagues. We stay at a retreat centre. The food and the company is good. The world is collapsing but this is a jewel of good fortune. Over a style and across a field of bone-coloured grass lies a lake. The mountains look down […]

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