September

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People and Places

• The wall is here
• The Corrymeela Community
• The Cardiff Bay Lightship
• Imerfectly Natural
• Falling in…
• A Year of Living Generously
• A Rocha
• The Iona Community
• Student Christian Movement
• Greenbelt Festival
• The Amelia Methodist Trust
• The Taize Community
• John Davies Blog
• L’Arche
• The Northumbria Community

Random College Entry

• Ticket to ride

  Cast: Young Man of Eastern European origin 2 Young Men from South Wales 1 Conductor 2 Old Dears On a train from Bridgend to Cardiff, the air in the carriage is blue, fulminating and procrastinating they sit organising the world into compartments they can cope with, arranging society so it fits their understanding. The two young men from south Wales look on almost apologetically as these ‘Old Dears’ promptly allocate them a slot in their ordered understandable society framework. I am out of view, hidden by the blessed chair back, saved from being pigeonholed, but my ears are not. Added to this distress they are treated to a cacophony of sound which can only be from the two Chinese girls on the other side of the train. As suddenly as it all started the two Chinese girls go silent, lost in some magazine or entranced by their music on the ipod they share, I know not which as their table is littered with the remnants of a long train journey. In the brief silence offered by the lack of Chinese speak, another conversation filters through. ‘If you haven’t a valid ticket you will have to pay again’ ‘I have this [...]

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