Railway musings south of Warsaw

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Sunday, 30 March 2025

The End of Time – Lent 2025: Day 26

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Science has no clear answer as to how the Universe ( this Universe?) will end. In a Big Crunch (galaxies collapsing into their black holes ...
Saturday, 29 March 2025

Words, music, memories and other mind-altering drugs – Lent 2025: Day 25

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Smash, rip, incinerate, crush, suffocate, destroy, annihilate, mourn, despair. [Now read again.] Has reading this list of verbs changed your...
Friday, 28 March 2025

Reality – as we perceive it, and as it is – Lent 2025: Day 24

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Into the second half of Lent, downhill towards Easter. Going nicely. Today, I want to turn my attention to what we consider to be our 'r...
Thursday, 27 March 2025

The Tao of Doing Less – Lent 2025: Day 23

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"I should have pushed myself harder!" And then what? "With more discipline and drive, I could have achieved more!" Again...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Say farewell to materialism – Lent 2025: Day 22

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I don't own a car (I do, however, have the use of my daughter's 19-year-old Nissan Micra, which I use once a week for a shopping tri...
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

Gender and spirituality – Lent 2025: Day 21

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A profound insight I had late last year came when I chanced upon these words in The Economist , written by a male journalist. "I won li...
Monday, 24 March 2025

Why I keep blogging these Lenten posts – Lent 2025: Day 20

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Blimey! Nearly three weeks into Lent and it's occurred to me that I haven't yet explained why I'm doing this series of Lenten po...
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Sunday, 23 March 2025

Wisdom and the future – Lent 2025: Day 19

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"With foresight, I should have done – " Well, what? What should you have done? Done something different, I presume. Or done nothin...