Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • Happy Birthday Earth: 50 Years Old Today

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    Very special day today: 50 years since the first human being orbited the earth. On 12th April 1961, Yuri Gagarin was launched by a Vostok rocket into space, and completed an orbit of the earth. He became an international celebrity and travelled the world to talk about his trip and promote the Soviet Union. 50…

  • Religion as Theatre :: A Willing Suspension of Disbelief

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    I’m reading Stephen Greenblatt’s Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare at the moment. It’s a brilliant book, grounding the often mythic character of the bard into his real world of Elizabethan London. I’d highly recommend it. One quote that jumped out at me the other day in within a discussion of Anthony and…

  • Eating Soft Centres at the Menin Gate…

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    Went to Belgium Friday and Saturday for a tour of the World War 1 sites. It was fascinating… but troubling. Led by a retired solider with 30 years experience – much of it in pretty ‘hot’ active service – we toured battlefields and cemeteries around Belgium and France. We ended up at the Menin Gate…

  • Musings…

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    Spring always makes me look back. Been listening to quite a lot of music recently, some new, some old… Reminded of my times way back playing in a band, Caned and Able, which took the Bristol jazz-funk scene by storm in a hash-enveloped cloud for a while. Recorded with Massive Attack, supported James Taylor Quartet…

  • Happy New Year you fools! | Dirt and Regeneration

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    Happy new year? Well, only if you’re from the Middle Ages, when the traditional time to celebrate new year was from around 25th March for a week. It’s thought that this might be the background to April Fool’s Day: when ‘modern’ types started celebrating new year according to the Julian calendar, they made fun of…

  • If you don’t die to self, then Heaven will be Hell

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    I’ve just finished reading Rob Bell’s book Love Wins – and will be reviewing it for Third Way magazine (ie, buy that too, it’s not this post, I promise). It’s a really great book; I highly recommend it. It’s very very readable – which, for some, may be read as a euphemism for ‘dumbed down’…