table of contents

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          1. The Gentle Art of Wayfaring
          2. Walking on Air
          3. Rebuilding from within
          4. An Exercise in Unknowing
          5. in praise of Inchoate Reality
          6. Engineering and Angels
          7. While Unsleeping
          8. the Grand Scheme of Things
          9. to the Reader
          10. Man Creates God
          11. Invitation to a close encounter
          12. All Actual Life is Encounter
          13. Do fish have souls?
          14. A magical place
          15. Home journal
          16. Cherishing the Past
          17. if a white feather falls in front of you…
          18. Recycling via the Salvation Army
          19. Why we do what we do
          20. Lucid Waking
          21. The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
          22. What looks after us?
          23. Take Nothing for Granted
          24. Angels and Us
          25. an Outsider
          26. My Life as Art
          27. On Coombe Hill
          28. Mill Park
          29. The Angelic Gift
          30. Flowers of Grass
          31. Country Walk
          32. The Gift Horse
          33. Liberation
          34. The Buddha and the Corpse
          35. Full Circle
          36. Girl with a Pearl Earring
          37. Sittism or mainly Whateverism
          38. Lehman Brothers Bites the Dust
          39. From a Nest of Terrorists
          40. Living in High Wycombe
          41. Eagle Flew Out of the Night
          42. Touched by the Printed Word
          43. Portrait of Two Kings
          44. This Blessed Plot
          45. Friendly Black Sheep
          46. Norfolk House
          47. Where Norfolk House Stood
          48. Fog on the Solent
          49. Intelligent Design
          50. Hurried Post
          51. Uncertainty
          52. Prophetic Words from 1976
          53. 1976: The prize-winning Lawless prophecy
          54. 1976 Prediction of the Mighty System
          55. Amazing Predictions
          56. When Memory Strikes
          57. The Ventilator Cowl
          58. Bledlow Ridge
          59. A Brush with the Past
          60. 32 Answers
          61. Altering the Past
          62. Sunlit Ecstasy
          63. The Princess Flying Boat
          64. Litter
          65. The Magic Fence
          66. Bonfire of the Vanities
          67. Resuming Normality
          68. The Constant Spring
          69. Angst and Angels
          70. Springtime
          71. Flat-bottomed Clouds
          72. Healing
          73. Rainy day window
          74. The Placebo Effect
          75. Why Pain?
          76. Community
          77. Carbon Footprint
          78. an old Cockney song
          79. Good Vibrations
          80. Valley Creatures
          81. Sisyphus and the Rolling Stone pt 4
          82. Homer’s Odyssey
          83. Divine Anarchy
          84. Angelic Brightness
          85. Angelic Omens
          86. Preferring the Old Telephones
          87. The old Telephones
          88. On a Dark and Stormy Night
          89. One thought fills Immensity
          90. Revelations
          91. Sex Therapy book
          92. Sex Therapy
          93. Self-Doubt
          94. The Moment
          95. Love to All
          96. The Cosmic Ordering Service
          97. Diogenes and Alexander
          98. Angels Disguised as Bandits
          99. Fantasies
          100. Bicycle
          101. Walking Alone
          102. In the Industrial Valley
          103. The Visionary Eye
          104. Love Affairs
          105. The Deck of Cards
          106. John o’Saturn Meets Women from Earth
          107. The Towers of Cybele
          108. To Paul, from Vincent
          109. Why do Ladybirds have Spots?
          110. Not Knowing feels like a good place to be
          111. Not trying too hard
          112. Easter Reverie
          113. Is Soul poured into Flesh?
          114. What is Soul?
          115. Do Fish have Souls?
          116. Do I have an Immortal Soul?
          117. Happiness Machine
          118. Punishment or Happiness?
          119. What the Alpine Club Had to Say
          120. The Handyman, by Brian Spaeth
          121. Ant vs Sluggard
          122. Bus Station
          123. Whithersoever
          124. Bus Ride
          125. Slug Life
          126. Back Home from Hospital
          127. Passion and Society
          128. Living in a Body
          129. … Until the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse land at Heathrow
          130. The Bitter Taste
          131. The Poetic
          132. Bless My Soul
          133. Neon or Candle-Light
          134. Blazing a Trail
          135. An Open Letter to the Person Complaining
          136. The Book of Margery Kempe
          137. The Free Soul
          138. A Fig-Leaf for David
          139. Enhancing the Sky
          140. This Blessed Plot
          141. Bach and Blackbird
          142. BWV 140, a Church Cantata of J.S. Bach
          143. An Air for Cello and Soprano
          144. Art as Generosity
          145. Classical Music of Africa
          146. Escaping from a Festival
          147. Dark Star
          148. Storms
          149. What Grandma Told Me…
          150. The Human Condition
          151. Fragile
          152. Theatre of Life
          153. One Piece of Baggage
          154. The word Spiritual
          155. What is the greatest invention of all time?
          156. Ducks and Drakes
          157. Ritual & Reason
          158. Cornfields near Amersham Old Town
          159. Bible-reading Martyrs
          160. A Very English View
          161. Liking and Disliking
          162. Museums and Women
          163. Mission
          164. Mission to Babylon
          165. Pedestrian Ideas
          166. Yellow
          167. England in Spring
          168. Blurbs
          169. the beggar gives without my asking
          170. Dream Lesson
          171. Some Dreams
          172. When the Past Haunts the Night
          173. Night Thoughts
          174. The Senses
          175. Affinity
          176. Fernando Pessoa
          177. A Traveller’s Stale
          178. Lisbon
          179. By Bus and Canal
          180. Sunday Morning Stroll
          181. Unblocking
          182. Intelligent Design
          183. Panspermia
          184. Straw Dogs
          185. The Pope and the Koran
          186. All we ever need to know
          187. Discussion on Education
          188. The Realm of Infinite Possibility
          189. Perpetual Lab
          190. Piklu and the Old Man
          191. Enough of Priesthoods
          192. Hasty Sketch Map
          193. Preoccupied and Dreamy
          194. Sent to Boarding School
          195. Healing
          196. Eleventh Child
          197. Brexit Dream 1
          198. Brexit Dream 2
          199. Brexit Dream 3
          200. Beggars and Brexiteers
          201. Manhattan Odyssey
          202. 90 Minutes in New York
          203. No Man is an Island
          204. Other Places, Other Times
          205. Pilgrimage to St Cuthbert’s
          206. Privacy, Fearlessness
          207. Released from Hospital
          208. Driving Again
          209. Eagle Flew Out of the Night
          210. Storms
          211. Learning How to Live
          212. Crime and Punishment
          213. Death Row
          214. From the Gone Past
          215. University Dreams
          216. Ship of Dreams
          217. If I burn to death, they’ll be sorry
          218. Fields of Blood
          219. Religion on Public Life
          220. The Story of Tools
          221. Robert Louis Stevenson on Gas Lamps
          222. Knowledge of Angels
          223. Inner and Outer Landscape
          224. Mr Lehane is Back
          225. Back Home in Blighty
          226. Accompaniment
          227. Being ready
          228. by their fruits
          229. What is life?
          230. By their Fruits
          231. Anam Ċara
          232. Spirit
          233. The Mysterious Impulse
          234. Stepping on Air
          235. The Lord is my Shepherd
          236. A Coney Island of the Mind
          237. Dawn Today
          238. Pedestrian Ideas
          239. The Covenant
          240. Time Consumes: Art Distils
          241. Stairway to Heaven
          242. Maxiram Revisited
          243. Holy Family
          244. Fevered Interlude
          245. the New Pub
          246. what is God?
          247. Cool Vibrations, Good Migration
          248. Angelic Omens
          249. Cook for Cats
          250. in the days of low sun
          251. Southward
          252. Christmas Past
          253. On Christmas Eve
          254. On Reading the Bible
          255. The Boy Samuel
          256. The Bible as a Sacred Object
          257. Bible-reading Martyrs
          258. In a Dark and Secret Wood
          259. To Him that Knocketh
          260. The Headmaster’s Wife
          261. Escaping one’s Enemy
          262. Taking the Bull by the Horns
          263. Eternal Echoes
          264. I am an Animal
          265. Wet Day
          266. To Hayden, on Pets
          267. With a Pinch of Salt
          268. George Santayana
          269. Purpose
          270. Early Childhood
          271. Some Rare Photos
          272. Latin Class
          273. King James I School
          274. Black Books
          275. Dreams
          276. Night Thoughts
          277. Two Vincents
          278. Vincent in Auvers
          279. The Butterfly Phase
          280. The Persistence of Selfhood
          281. The Centaur
          282. High Wycombe has a Monopoly
          283. Views from Our House
          284. The Chilterns
          285. Adaptation
          286. The Yet-to-be invented e-Writer
          287. The Phoenix Trail
          288. Managing my Time on Earth
          289. How we got here, where we go next
          290. Sleeper Class
          291. Free as a Bird
          292. Ticket to Paradise
          293. From a Thief
          294. Everything Knows
          295. Stories of Animal Sagacity
          296. Stories of Feline Sagacity
          297. I Leap Over the Wall
          298. The Anointing of Saul
          299. The Old Testament
          300. Memorable Achievements?
          301. Magic of Day and Night
          302. A Dummy’s prayer answered
          303. Mr Sudell
          304. In the Days of Low Sun
          305. Confession
          306. The Art of the Possible
          307. Angels and Grace
          308. Good and Bad
          309. Wasp Honey
          310. Hornet’s Nest
          311. Wittgenstein
          312. Whereof one cannot speak
          313. Depth
          314. Smarts
          315. Preface
          316. Preface Mark II
          317. Preface Mark III
          318. Inside Out
          319. The Howrah Bridge Palmist
          320. Van Loon’s Lives, and Other Stories
          321. From an Old Notebook
          322. Wittgenstein on Imagination
          323. Jordan Peterson and Susan Blackmore
          324. Something Meaningful
          325. Here in October
          326. The View from Nowhere
          327. Distinguish what’s Real
          328. Like an Artist’s Brush
          329. Me and the Little Rock Nine
          330. User-Friendly
          331. Rambling in a Landscape
          332. Writing Instrument
          333. Classical Music of Africa
          334. The Price of Civilisation
          335. Jamaica, April 2018
          336. More Jamaica
          337. Jamaican Album
          338. From Jamaica
          339. Peg, a minor character
          340. Kindness, Audio Podcast
          341. Strange Angels
          342. Delicious, not Precious
          343. The Unnamed Road
          344. Back to Slough
          345. Rooted here
          346. Attitude
          347. Compassion
          348. Stepping Aside
          349. Thirteen
          350. Animal
          351. Attracted
          352. Blissful
          353. Constant
          354. forgiving
          355. Generous
          356. humble
          357. Akin
          358. Natural
          359. Outreaching
          360. Self-proclaiming
          361. unjudging
          362. wise
          363. Blessed by the Sun
          364. Head and body
          365. In the thistle-field, at dawn
          366. Perspectives and Remembrance
          367. My true self
          368. “The Head’s Sermon”
          369. Remembrance
          370. Remembrance Sunday
          371. Dress Code
          372. They that go down to the sea in ships
          373. The Holy Ghost
          374. Improvisation
          375. Dr Johnson and Blockheads
          376. Climb the lowest mountain
          377. Graffiti
          378. Alley Creatures
          379. Gerrards Cross and the Wayfarer
          380. Gerrards Cross
          381. The Secret Life of Strangers
          382. God is silent: Angels are here
          383. What is Philosophy?
          384. Abstract Thinking vs Sensuous Living
          385. Human Animal
          386. Stepping Out
          387. Death before Dishonour
          388. the Lure of Literature
          389. Publish and be Damned
          390. Portrait of her Grandfather
          391. Annie Dillard
          392. The Mysterious Impulse
          393. Only the bicycle shed still stands
          394. News of the fight soon reached the Queen
          395. A call from “Alma Mater”
          396. David’s Fig-Leaf
          397. Pygmalion and Galatea
          398. Face to Face
          399. The Girl who Rocked the Government
          400. Pastures New
          401. Up through the floorboards
          402. X: the Unknown
          403. Life Story Part 2
          404. Life Story Part 1 
          405. Being a nobody
          406. Like Wildfire
          407. Reason to celebrate
          408. Visit to Dalkey in 2014
          409. Greenhayes Across the Years
          410. Old Photos
          411. The Long Journey to Now
          412. Acknowledgments
          413. Original version of diary software
          414. My diary
          415. Your diary
          416. From Etty, to God
          417. Spaces
          418. All Religion is Magic!
          419. Life-Illusion
          420. Angel Story
          421. Heaven-Haven
          422. Tooting Broadway Dude
          423. What makes me Uneasy
          424. Getting Things Done
          425. My Creation Myth
          426. The Joker Chuang-Tzu
          427. The Denial of Death
          428. The Secret Agent
          429. Hell! said the Duchess
          430. The Search for Meaning
          431. Angels
          432. An Outsider’s Perspective
          433. Beliefs 1: Pursue your Dreams
          434. Unimaginable
          435. The Tree of Life
          436. Reunion
          437. …and a Kitchen Sink, too
          438. The Snowdrop Garden
          439. Is it Just Evolution?
          440. Spring, or the Talk that Never Was
          441. Guided Randomness
          442. Simone Weil on Evil
          443. Simone Weil on Politics and Justice
          444. Gravity and Grace, by Simone Weil
          445. A Graceful Retreat
          446. The Garden of Remembrance
          447. The Interconnectedness of All Things
          448. Nature’s Profusion
          449. Duckling traffic
          450. Cherry Tree
          451. As a Novice
          452. Maslow’s Pyramid
          453. Enthousiasmos
          454. To My Literary Agent
          455. What to Do
          456. Unfettered
          457. clouds and simple things
          458. Letter to the Universe
          459. Reader-Friendly
          460. Testament
          461. View from the Hill
          462. Intrepid Victorians
          463. Binding a Joy
          464. Joy without a Cause
          465. In Memory of George Whitman, 1913-2011
          466. A Comatose Fridge, and Whatever’s Meant to Be
          467. Presence: the Numinous in Everyday Life
          468. At the Blue Note Café
          469. From the Land of Serendip
          470. The Exchange of Gifts
          471. At the Moot Spot
          472. Who is my Neighbour?
          473. English pancakes
          474. enough of priesthoods
          475. The Creative Mind
          476. Intrepid Victorians (2)
          477. I am not a Machine
          478. Jotted Psalm
          479. Scintillating Scotoma
          480. Secret Strength
          481. Spreading the Word
          482. Why write Memoirs
          483. Not Doing and Not Writing
          484. Meeting Myself
          485. On Fresh Air Alone
          486. On Being an Animal
          487. The Origins of Speech, according to Wittgenstein
          488. God, Love, Marriage, Sex
          489. The Faculty of Wonder
          490. Aboriginal Tirade
          491. Enough of Priesthoods
          492. Tsundoku
          493. The Opium of the People
          494. Suffusion of Yellow
          495. Seeing from a Height
          496. Luck & Angelic Messengers
          497. Hole in the Head
          498. Figures in a Landscape, updated
          499. Encounter in a Landscape
          500. Round and Round the Pampas Grass
          501. Fantasies
          502. Sail away
          503. Blue Sea
          504. Watercress and Angels
          505. The Moment, and The Rainbow
          506. Breadcrumbs . . . . . .
          507. Eternity in the City
          508. Divine Economy?
          509. Caterpillar
          510. God and the Laws of Physics
          511. From Handwriting to Eternity
          512. Not Knowing
          513. The Past Rewrites Itself
          514. Wayfaring Again
          515. The Springtime of Youth
          516. In Memoriam for a lost friend
          517. Glimpsing Eternity
          518. Four-leaf Clover
          519. A Modest School Reunion
          520. Pregnant Thoughts
          521. Gaia Warriors
          522. Infinite are the Depths
          523. Christina in a Bookshop
          524. On Happiness