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For Times Like These

For Times Like These

The University of Edinburgh Chaplaincy Blog

Year: 2023

This weeks blog by Associate Chaplain Urzula Glieneke:   Allow me to share one of my favourite tales from my childhood by Imants Ziedonis – the Gray Tale. It is profoundly spiritual to me.   “I am the grey one…” But let me write the first sentences in Latvian – it’s so beautiful to me: Es esmu Pelēkais. Es esmu pelēks kā pelēns. Es esmu pelēks kā putns, kā puteklis, kā pelni. Es esmu Pelēkais. I […]

Associate Chaplain Geoffrey Baines plays with form to explore how drawing by hand ‘proffers a joining of our inside and outside worlds, when the rush and noise of 21st century life refuses us rest and reflection.’  AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE   Each of the projects described in this book has at its centre something drawn by hand.* Quentin Blake   […]

As I am walking in the nature of Scotland this winter with its crisp days and cold winds I cannot help wondering where the forests have gone. So few trees, so much open land and the brown tufts of bracken everywhere. They must have been there – in places one can still see the roots […]

Mindfulness Chaplain Dr Kitty Wheater reflects on how we might retain a sense of transcendence as we move into the busyness of the semester.  As I roll up the blind in the mornings, I have learned to guess the colour of the dawn sky from the tones of light that creep in upon the window-seat. […]

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