The Beginning

Excerpted from ‘Let There Be Life’ (published by Paulist Press, 2002) By Robert Fripp Verse 1. In the beginning was darkness and the silence of the void. And the spirit of God looked out upon the void, and was alone within it. Verse 1, commentary ~ For the authors of Genesis the moment of Creation … Read more

Supernova: the stuff of star-stuff

  We start in a perverse sort of way, considering we are dealing with a supernova. First, we drop  into a world of fiction based on fact, beginning with an excerpt from ‘Wessex Tales’ ~ ‘Musing on Damory Oak’: “In the thirteenth year of King Canute (1029), the year in which the acorn thrust its root down in moist earth … Read more