# The View from the Nest

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## Posts

- [Cézanne on being present](https://reimagine.co.uk/cezanne-on-being-present/): His entire will must be silent. He must silence all prejudice within himself. He must forget, forget, be quiet, be a perfect echo.
- [Attention](https://reimagine.co.uk/attention/): A friend suggested I might enjoy Byung-Chul Han’s Speaking about God: A Dialogue with Simone Weil that has recently been translated into English. He was right.
- [The Egg and the Hazelnut](https://reimagine.co.uk/the-egg-and-the-hazelnut/): This morning I was thinking about two very different images of creation, and a sentence of Simone Weil's that sits underneath both.
- [Jane Eyre (1997)](https://reimagine.co.uk/jane-eyre-1997/): Intrigued by Samantha Morton’s brilliant cameo as Circe in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, I dug out the 1997 ITV adaptation of Jane Eyre on DVD, in which she plays Jane.
- [A summons in Bow, September 1912](https://reimagine.co.uk/a-summons-in-bow-september-1912/): This week’s family-history discovery was a short item in the Daily Herald of Monday 23 September 1912. The paper was then only five months old.
- [A cruciform theology](https://reimagine.co.uk/a-cruciform-theology/): Recently, I have been asked why having a cruciform theology is so important for me and I struggled to convey clearly what I meant by the phrase.
- [A Brain Surgeon, a Rabbi, and Em Dash Graham Walk into a Bar](https://reimagine.co.uk/a-brain-surgeon-a-rabbi-and-em-dash-graham-walk-into-a-bar/): This morning I read this on Rebecca K.
- ["A Household Inside the Movement: The O’Briens of 106 Cadogan Terrace" (v1.08)](https://reimagine.co.uk/a-household-inside-the-movement-the-obriens-of-106-cadogan-terrace-v1-08/): A carefully researched account of the O’Brien family of Bow and their links with East London radicalism, women’s suffrage and socialism.
- [My Spiritual Biography: From Certainty to Trust](https://reimagine.co.uk/my-spiritual-biography-from-certainty-to-trust/): This is still a work in progress for me but I think it has reached the point where it is ready for other eyes.
- [Charles James Partridge](https://reimagine.co.uk/charles-james-partridge/): A researched account of my great-uncle Charles James Partridge, a Regular soldier in the Essex Regiment who served in India and South Africa before the First World War.
- [My maternal grandfather in WW1](https://reimagine.co.uk/my-maternal-grandfather-in-ww1/): A research account of Edward Charles “Charlie” Rendell’s First World War service with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.
- [My Father in the Navy](https://reimagine.co.uk/my-father-in-the-navy/): A researched account of my father, Charles James “Jim” Partridge’s Second World War service in the Royal Naval Patrol Service.
- [My first football match](https://reimagine.co.uk/my-first-football-match/): Came across this today. The program from the first football match I remember going to with my dad, 27th April 1963. I would have been eight then.
- [An experiment with AI](https://reimagine.co.uk/an-experiment-with-ai/): Another experiment with AI. First the original B&W photo scanned at 600dpi. Then the colourised version.
- [My Dissertation on Simone Weil (2021)](https://reimagine.co.uk/my-dissertation-on-simone-weil/)
- [Authority in a Local Baptist Church (2019)](https://reimagine.co.uk/authority-in-a-local-baptist-church-2019/)
- [The Implications of the Word Became Flesh in the Works of Athanasius (2017)](https://reimagine.co.uk/116-2/)

## Pages

- [Photo Gallery](https://reimagine.co.uk/photo-gallery/)
- [Poems (1974-1986)](https://reimagine.co.uk/poems-1974-1986/): There is a well-known saying that the past is a foreign country.
- [About me](https://reimagine.co.uk/bio/): A longtime Ipswich Town FC supporter, Mike grew up on the East Coast in what he likes to describe as the East Anglian part of Essex, but now lives in Cheshire, not far from Manchester Airport.
- [Faith Files](https://reimagine.co.uk/faith_matters/): Recently, I have been asked why having a cruciform theology is so important for me and I struggled to convey clearly what I meant by the phrase.
- [Family History](https://reimagine.co.uk/family-history/): A carefully researched account of the O’Brien family of Bow and their links with East London radicalism, women’s suffrage and socialism.

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