Away in search of thin places
' Donald Allchin , the Anglican writer who is a contemporary chronicler of Bardsey , has referred to the island in one of his books I read before going over as a 'thin place', not in the sense that it is small and insignificant, though of course geographically it is, but rather that it is a place where the barrier between this world and the world of the spirit dissolves' - from The Extra Mile by Peter Stanford . 'Thin places' as defined by Donald Allchin have become something of a leitmotif of this blog. Thinness can be created over the centuries by culture and geography, as in Marrakech where I took the header photo. Or thinness can be transitory, created in the concert hall by Britten's holy triangle of composer, performer and listener. As happened last night when the Theatre Royal, Norwich became a very thin place indeed thanks to the musicans from many countries and cultures who presented Jerusalem - City of the Two Peaces . Jordi Savall's intr