Alistair AppletonOct 21, 20233 min readRetreatHow the Holy Island retreat went this Autumn... Photos from the summer retreat courtesy of Darika Barker and Elaine Gray. Obviously, we didn't have our phones in October! We went to...
Alistair AppletonJan 9, 20236 min readRetreatSitting Out practiceThe January full moon over the Seven Sisters, 2022. WHAT IS SITTING OUT? I’ve been exploring a practice called ‘sitting out’. It’s not a...
Alistair AppletonJul 12, 20222 min readRetreatThe Island RevisitedAfter a three-year gap, we made it back to Holy Island! Kirsty, Dameon and I travelled up to Arran a day early but there were high winds...
Alistair AppletonSep 10, 20214 min readCultureOur Love for the CityOn the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, I was thinking about how we relate to those events – both at the time...
Alistair AppletonAug 6, 20213 min readSpiritualityAvebury Magic and Anti-magicAnother scoop from the archives. Funnily enough, I may have changed my mind from the rather Puritan stance voiced in this blog in the...
Alistair AppletonMay 7, 20216 min readPlaces“Being incarnate is a business”, Iris Murdoch.Adrian’s boyfriend was telling me about epiphytic plants which are not directly parasitic on the tree they dwell on but rather hop on…
Alistair AppletonApr 14, 20192 min readPlacesUnited Simplicities of America2 weeks in LA and Mendocino County, 2 hours North of San Francisco. Have been unconsciously avoiding America ever since Bush came to...