“On May 14, 1796, Jenner took fluid from a cowpox blister and scratched it into the skin of James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. A single blister rose up on the spot, but James soon recovered. On July 1, Jenner inoculated the boy again, this time with smallpox matter, and no disease developed. The vaccine was a success”.

“The terms “red pill” and blue pill” refer to a choice between revealing an unpleasant truth, represented by the red pill, and remaining in blissful ignorance, represented by the blue pill. The terms reference the 1999 film The Matrix.”

In the last twenty years, when community activism has been a major part of what I do work wise (paid and now unpaid), I have come to see many developments and it happens that helping the homeless has been a major part of my own involvement, although these days age and indifferent health means I am less active physically.

I am sure many reading this would not disagree when I say we live in extraordinary days. There are things going on around us we can’t figure out and those around us all too often see things differently.

Idolatry

Holiness

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven … A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up” Ecclesiastes 3:1,3

When I blogged the following day concerning the previous day’s US Presidential election, the result was still on a knife edge, with Biden feeling optimistic of winning and Trump claiming victory.

I am not particularly well qualified to write this article …

Now we know or at least we had hoped we would …