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Silent Discos in English Cathedrals
What would Jesus do?
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Tina Beattie
Consolation and Melancholy
"Listening to the Essence of Things" is free to all subscribers for the time being. I have yet to establish a pattern of regular posts that would…
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Tina Beattie

February 2024

Gathering and Shaping the World
a year of Irish literature
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Tina Beattie
3

January 2024

Wordweaves
Silken threads and worldwide webs
2

December 2023

Antiphons
Sunrise over Rome, seen from a terrace above Trastevere. The light of a new day lifting the city out of darkness. A city whose history is written in…
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Tina Beattie
8
Not Swimming with Anne Carson
- what I write when I can't find the words
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Tina Beattie
1

November 2023

Adam's Curse? - Androcentrism and Ecology
Reflection at Choral Evensong, Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge
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Tina Beattie
2

October 2023

Elected silence
How to speak when there are no words
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Tina Beattie
Breaking the Silence (Podcast)
"What you cannot say, you have to write." (Jacques Derrida, quoted by Jon Fosse)
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Tina Beattie
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Breaking the Silence
“What you cannot say, you have to write.” (Jacques Derrida, quoted by Jon Fosse)
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Tina Beattie
6

August 2023

Musings on Barbie
(see the link below to my other Substack site)
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Tina Beattie
STRANGE ENCOUNTERS
A reflection on solitude, sorrow, and love
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Tina Beattie
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