Transcendence
Transcendence. Once I felt it without recognising it. Later I knew it, fleetingly, for what it was. Can I regain it in new ways?
Posts by Year
2021
Sharing the Swimming Love
Back in December I completed a fundraising challenge to swim 350m in cold water, raising just short of £5000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. A lov...
2020
Why I Swim
I started swimming in the cold water of Vobster Quay in September 2019, about 4 months after my MND diagnosis. With the help of some very special friends I k...
Why We Sleep
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Being Mortal
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Man’s Search for Meaning
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
An afternoon in the pub
“An afternoon in the pub”: there was a time when that phrase would have sounded perfectly ordinary. Yesterday it was the height of luxury. I spent a delightf...
Minecraft Modding
Finally one of the kids (J) wanted to learn some coding with me! He’s been watching a ton of YouTube videos and decided he would like to be able to make Mine...
Three Dreams
I have been remembering dreams more frequently in the last months than ever before. Sometimes they are quite entertaining, for me at least. The following 3 h...