In memoriam – Mary Oliver – 1935-2019 You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. I can still remember the wave of joy and…
Tag: spirituality
Michel Faber interview
A STORY OF FAITH AND SEPARATION
The novelist Michel Faber talks about his new book, his Evangelical background, atheism, and the loss of his wife.
ARRIVING to interview Michel Faber, I feel awestruck and slightly puzzled.
TEDx Talk: On Meaningful Risk
TEDx conference, Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania November 2012 “My name is Nick Thorpe, I’m a writer and journalist, and I have a fascination with risk-taking. Despite my innate anxiety – or perhaps because of it – I seem compelled to stretch myself, force myself into the present moment. But what’s changed over the…
The Rites of Men
Psychotherapist Michael Boyle is in Edinburgh tomorrow (11th August) to talk about his visionary approach to directionless or delinquent young men – lead them through a modern rites of passage they will never forget. Published in The Herald on 10th Aug 2012 AMID the depressingly high statistics for male youth offending, unemployment and suicide, Michael Boyle…
The Power of Menswork
“Most men don’t have a life. Instead we have learned to pretend. Much of what men do is an outer show, kept up for protection. Like a tiger raised in a zoo – confused and numb, with huge energies untapped. He feels there must be more, but does not know what more is.” Steve Biddulph,…
A chat with Annie Lennox
I’ve long admired Annie Lennox, both for the gutsy emotional honesty of her music and her commitment to human rights campaigning (not to mention my Eighties nostalgia for all those insanely danceable Eurythmics riffs). So when I got the chance to interview her for the December issue of Third Way magazine, I decided to dig a…