Dropping in

A lot has happened in the last few weeks meaning little space to blog in - I am very very sorry. Finally, you'll be pleased to know, I managed to put a deposit down on a place in Kentish Town, which after months of looking is a real relief. Its a cool place in an alright area (no sight of used needles on the floors just yet) and im hoping that all the references go through without a hitch. Before all that came about though I was up in Edinburgh for the Festival. It was my first time there and it were rete good. I think that's how you spell 'rete', though perhaps its 'rite' or 'reat'. Anyway I saw some amazing stuff, most notably Tim Key's 'Slut in the Hut' and the Film 'We Are Together', the latter of which is truly an incredible piece of work about the song tradition of an orphanage in South Africa called Agape. It was a necessary few days basically - I chilled out, caught up with friends I hadn't seen in too long and met Jimmy Saville.

I say 'necessary' because I have had a fairly stressful few weeks, which have made relaxation incredibly important. I have had decisions to make recently too personal to share here. Going through this experience has made me come to the conclusion that the speed and surprise of having to make a moral decision renders forethought on their content or possibilities almost irrelevent. It is hard to marry the personal and the theoretical at the best of times, but while spiritually I feel content in providing structures from what I have read to the way I live my life, morally I often feel that there is no adequate preparation whatsoever. To use this blog adequately I hope to develop this thought by offering some sort of phenomenology of decision making in future posts. Don't worry, I promise another few Animal Poems in the near future too. I will not let the shallow nature of Slightly Indulgent slip, I promise...

Right, I must be off to celebrate the 30th birthday of L'Arche Lambeth - the community I worked in for a year, wrote about in my thesis on theology and disability, and feel very committed too. The party is going to be held at Lambeth Palace and Rowan Williams - he who resides in that palace - will preach at a service of thanksgiving. Im looking forward to it a whole lot.

Peace