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I'm Eirene - backstreet pilgrim.

I'm changing my image of God, one step at a time. My journey is taking me through the backstreets,

not by any main route into the city.

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'Faith is the radical trust that home has always been there and always will be there.'

Henri Nouwen

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Happy Hopeful New Year - changing from the inside out

eirenepalmer

Jan 12
3 min

Happy Hopeful New Year - changing from the inside out

It’s a tad late – but Happy New Year! New Year, New You! Yeah right. I don’t do new year’s resolutions because I never keep them. It’s...

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eirenepalmer

Nov 18, 2022
3 min

Peace mail

Last weekend, me and Richard ran a writing retreat at Launde Abbey in Leicestershire. And far from finding my best self before we went, I...

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eirenepalmer

Mar 4, 2022
3 min

Encircle. Heal. Protect.

If, like me you were raised in a fundamentalist church, you learn to try very hard from the very beginning. Try hard to be good. Try hard...

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eirenepalmer

Jan 12, 2022
3 min

Imperfect ideas - a reflection on 2022

I’m just emerging from the limbo-land, the lethargy, the liminal place if you like, that is the ocean of space after Christmas and New...

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eirenepalmer

Sep 9, 2021
3 min

Holy Ground

Two weeks before we were due to lead our first ever writing retreat, we got ill. It started first as one of those tickly throats – you...

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eirenepalmer

Jul 15, 2021
3 min

Writing as therapy

I’m in the middle of a coast-to coast walk. And before I hear any murmurs of congratulation, appreciation, admiration or wonder, you need...

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Should I do a degree in Creative Writing?

eirenepalmer

Jul 8, 2021
3 min

Should I do a degree in Creative Writing?

I went back to university (or school as our friends across the pond would say) when I was sixty-two. The fact that I was a generation or...

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eirenepalmer

Jun 24, 2021
3 min

Writing to God

I love watching my little toddler grandchildren work things out. Maybe that block won’t fit in that hole. Maybe the baked beans are...

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eirenepalmer

Dec 17, 2020
2 min

In the bleak midwinter

I’m missing my writer’s ears and eyes in this pandemic. I’m missing those overheard snatches of conversation in the swimming pool (I told...

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eirenepalmer

Aug 12, 2020
2 min

How I write

How do you actually do it?’ You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your...

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Welcome!

Exploring your spiritual journey? Check out my blog

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Interested in Franciscans?

To contact: backstreetpilgrim@gmail.com

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