Alistair AppletonApr 19, 20238 min readDharmaCan we meditate while the world is burning?A participant in the last retreat I led asked a very good question that often arises in retreats. “It’s all very well us pondering our...
Alistair AppletonApr 19, 20232 min readPoetryApertura d'ali (Wingspan) / Bartolo CattafiCattafi was one of the generation of post-war Italian poets I was inspired to read at university in the 1980s. He lived through the...
Alistair AppletonApr 10, 20232 min readPoetryMoment / Wisława Szymborskatranslated from Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh This beautiful poem was suggested by Mindsprings regular Mechteld-Hanna...