Advent with me: take heart
Having posted a couple of days ago about risk and hope, I’ve been thinking a little bit about courage and the heart. A good friend of mine sent me a […]
Tag Archives: fear
Anticlimax
Fear part two: the anticlimax So after last night’s post, I checked my insurance policies and renewed them. I went to sleep fretting that if my flat is done over […]
Fear
London is up in arms. Fires, mobs, looting, violence and wanton destruction. It’s a Monday night. I’m heading home and there’s a sense of anticipation in the air. No, not […]
IWD: The F-word
I’m in Italy with work for a couple of days. When we arrived at the hotel yesterday, I asked the woman at the front desk if anything was happening in […]
A Woman in Damascus 2
The first person I met properly in Damascus was an Englishman called John, who had moved to the city seven yers earlier to work as a photographer. On my first […]
On helplessness, offering help and being helpful
‘Vivir con miedo, es como vivir a medias’ – ‘A life lived in fear, is a life half lived’ Strictly Ballroom (and my life motto) If there’s one thing I […]
Mostly dead is still slightly alive
Last week I flew to Belfast to interview a dying man. A macabre beginning to this particular blogpost I know. I went with some trepidation. The facts speak for themselves: […]
Vivir con miedo es como vivir a medias #2
So after the DOOM of my last post, I thought I should write something about the exhilaration of being alive. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to some people […]
Notes on hope #1
Dignity.From the Latin dignitas, meaning worth.The title of songs by Deacon Blue and Bob Dylan.A word often paired with death.A right asserted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.A value […]
Vivir con miedo es como vivir a medias
“Fear is an emotional response to tangible and realistic dangers. Fear should be distinguished from anxiety, an emotion that often arises out of proportion to the actual threat or danger […]
