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Rich Clarkson
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Priest, poet, songwriter, environmentalist, dad, coffee drinker, nature contemplative, probably other things!
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"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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A new poem inspired by a conversation I had during my recent visit to Melanesia
#poem #iambicpentameter #melanesia #anglican #library #MynaBirds
A picture of a yellow library building in Solomon Islands with mountains in the background and this poem overlaid on the sky: A Conversation Outside the Charles Elliot Fox library at Kohimarama “The birds around here speak sometimes”, he said, “the smallish brown ones with the yellow eyes. You have to pay attention though, they spread their mottled wings, glance back, say their goodbyes and then before you know it they have gone, packed up their conversation and moved on.” “We used to have a bishop here,” he said, “who was well known for talking to the birds and other creatures.  Once the rats all fled from the cassava patch at just a word from Bishop Fox.  His grave is over there. It's said the birds still join with him in prayer.” I tried to pay attention like he said, but though I watched and listened for a week, I talked to them, sang songs, and shared my bread, I never once did hear the Myna speak. Beside the Charles Fox library, filled with words, I sit in silence, praying with the birds. Rich Clarkson, 2025
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Today Bishop Sarah Mullally, nominated as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, made her first address at Canterbury Cathedral.

Watch the address at cofe.io/106thArchbishopAddress.
Announcement of Next Archbishop of Canterbury
Watch Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, who will be the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, make their first address at Canterbury Cathedral. May God...
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October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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SHE HAS A NAME
October 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power

We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before

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September 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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1981, 1987, 2005, 2010 - what do they have in common? Nottinghamshire won the County Championship and England won the Ashes. Notts just won the County Championship again and the Ashes start in a few weeks... #JustSaying
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September 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Kyle Verreynne seals the title in stupendous style, lofting a six to take us beyond 300 and banking the required batting points!

#Champions25 🏆
September 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I'm currently in the Solomon Islands getting to know the Anglican Church here and learning about the impacts of Climate Change here. This is a poem I wrote today reflecting on the last week of visits and conversations. #ClimateChange #Environment #CreationCare #SolomonIslands #Anglican #poetry #poem
Vulnerable There is a vulnerability in these small Islands where the challenges they face are mostly not of their own making. Seas are rising, trees are being felled, the race for land and for development is fierce - their magnitude could flood the roads with tears. But vulnerable does not mean powerless. Developing does not mean uninformed. These islands, villages, and towns are getting ready now to face the gathering storm. Stone by stone, day by day, resisting those forces that would stop them from existing. Here, where land and sea are in a battle aeons long, a fragile hope against all odds has always been their song. RichClarksonPoetry.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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The Umbilical Tree.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Pacific #SolomonIslands
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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The Season of Creation begins tomorrow, and I'm just packing to head out to the Solomon Islands in behalf of Lichfield Diocese to see firsthand the impacts of Climate Change in the Pacific and the work the Anglican Church of Melanesia is doing in response #SeasonOfCreation #Melanesia #ClimateChange
August 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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I'm not sure who turned my words into a meme, and included U.S. citizens (most of whom do not want a new war!), but I appreciate how many people are connecting with it.

May all of us, in all of our different situations, somehow help bring the justice this world so desperately needs. 💔
June 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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A glorious sunny afternoon watching the frogs and newts in the pond #frogs #newts #pondlife
June 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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We went to a garden centre this morning and I was struck by this matter of fact sign saying that this particular plant has been "bred to withstand our ever-increasing summer temperatures". Yet another symptom of the undeniable fact of climate change #ClimateChange #NetZero
June 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK.

One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge:

“It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.”

Except… it doesn't. 🧵
The UK Accelerates Its Self-Driving Car Ambitions Jay Walker poster
June 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Today's GCSE History exam is on the twin topics of "Making America" and "Living Under Nazi Rule". Those two are much closer together at the moment than they ought to be...
A photo of a GCSE timetable which includes today's History exam with the title "Mke Amrc Liv Undr Nzi Rle"
June 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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A group of folks I'm part of who usually meet at the pub on a Tuesday night have hired the church hall and are putting in a concert for family and friends and it's wonderful! 3 songs each and some impromptu bands - amateur music is alive and well in this corner of the world ❤️
June 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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New drawing: ‘The artists whose work was used when you made a picture using AI, and how much they were paid’. One of ten drawings about AI from Diagram Club #042: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...
Black and white cartoon, with title ‘The artists whose work was used when you made a picture using AI, and how much they were paid’. There are six figures, each being creative in some way (painting, drawing, with a phone, at a screen). Underneath the six figures the following captions: ‘Nothing, zero, nil, nought, not a sausage, nowt’.
June 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I've been reading Bob Dylan's autobiography 'Chronicles' recently and it has inspired this song
#BobDylan #Dylan #Songwriting #Americana #Chronicles
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New Song: Chronicles
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June 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Bought a new (old!) instrument today - a Neapolitan bowl back mandolin. She needs new strings and a bit of a clean up but even in her current state she sounds great! I love learning new instruments 🎶
June 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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What a run chase! Great knock from Jack Haynes 💪
trentbridge.co.uk Nottinghamshire CCC @trentbridge.co.uk · May 30
And that, with a flourish, is the Outlaws' highest-ever successful chase in T20 history!

#OutlawsAssemble
May 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed.

Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
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May 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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After watching the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown recently I've had a crack at writing my own protest song!
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#ProtestSong #BobDylan #ClimateChange #Hope #Songwriter
Protest Song
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May 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Where Robert Prevost, the new US-born Pope, stands on climate change:

"Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change"

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May 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Pro tip: if you've got laryngitis don't listen to Paul Simon's Graceland album - it's impossible not to sing along and that's really not good for your voice 🤦 #fail
May 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.
May 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM