Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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On the Strandline
Posted by: Amy Palko in Creativity
We are beachcombers. We two cast our gaze wide over the strandline, plundering shingle and shale for treasure hidden in plain sight. The gradations of blue on the shells of bicuspids, the frosted smoothness of oncewerebottles glass, a couple of oh-so-precious cowrie shells and a piece [...]
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Just a week ago, my father-in-law David Lewis’s funeral took place. He had been an NCO and sapper during the Second World War, spending time in North Africa and Italy. After the war he married, had two children, worked as an architect for Glamorgan County Council and subsequently for Hampshire County Council and lived an [...]
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Photo © John Barnabas Leith
Erica and I have been running a weekly study circle on the theme of reflections on the life of the spirit since mid-September. We’ve been using the first book of the Ruhi Institute materials. For the past few sessions, we’ve been studying the third unit of Book 1, which is about [...]
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I’ve blogged a couple of times about the amazing Randy Pausch, the innovator and academic who is facing death from pancreatic cancer by sharing his life’s wisdom with as many others as he can. And he’s worth listening to. His most recent lecture, given at the University of Virginia on 28 November, is about time [...]
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On 11 October I posted this about Dr Randy Pausch. Dr Pausch has been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas. Instead of giving up on life, as I would be tempted to do, he has embraced both his coming death and the time he has left to live life to the full in the [...]
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