Scottish Catholic Observer

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wilderness? Let them be left. O let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. (Inversnaid—GM Hopkins) A few years ago, defying age and wisdom, I borrowed a bike and sped off renewing my youth like an eagles until I wobbled off into a ditch; a wilderness. There, face downward with the breath bounced out of my body enlightenment was given to me! I knew that my cycling days were over! I learned much in that wilderness I discovered yet again that ... continue reading.