All Hallow’s Eve…. From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Bernie Bell - 08:17 on 31 October 2023
All Hallow’s Eve….
I was trying to think of a way to acknowledge Halloween without simply repeating what I’ve previously written…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/10/31/halloween-musings/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/10/31/all-hallows-eve/
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/11/02/coming-up-to-samhain/
…and thought that I’d recommend folk to read ‘All Hallow’s Eve’ by Charles Williams….
https://www.charleswilliamssociety.org.uk/
It’s one of the best books I’ve read about this time of year and the world of Spirit.
Charles Williams was one of the ’Inklings’ along with C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. He doesn’t get as much attention as them, but he had/has a similarly extra-ordinary mind.
I wonder where he is now?
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Laia Jufresa
Translated by Sophie Hughes
“From down here it’s hard not to feel that walling themselves in was also, in part, a way to keep us out. We have it on good authority that they could have rescued us.”
The rising sea, one of the most alarming and ubiquitous effects of our warming planet, is threatening island and coastal communities all over the world. An ocean-modeling study published last week in Nature Climate Change asserted that the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is now unavoidable, regardless of changes in greenhouse gas emissions in the coming century. This ice sheet alone holds enough water to raise the global sea level by as much as 5.3 meters if lost completely. As the oceans claim coastlines, the 900 million people who presently inhabit low-lying areas face relocation. How will those less directly affected respond?
This week’s short story by Mexican author Laia Jufresa, translated by Sophie Hughes, imagines a world ravaged and divided by the changing climate. Walled in by barricades crudely erected against the rising sea, a displaced community has formed a liminal, temporary settlement: thousands of boats linked together, queuing endlessly in hopes of crossing a border into safety. One woman, tasked with holding prayers for their salvation, negotiates the entanglement of faith and politics as she considers who, or what, truly has the power to change their circumstances.”
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Meanwhile - on the television there are repeated ads. for a Cruise to/through Antarctica. This includes an image of a BIG liner, ploughing its way through water full of lumps of ice, past cliffs of ice and land covered in Penguins.
Presumably the people on these cruises don’t see the irony.
Worse still – maybe they don’t care.
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/05/17/chalkhill-blues/
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