Updated: Jan. 4, 2015
by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
19 June, 2011
When I was a child, I read the Guinness Book of Records, and marvelled at the stories of the people who, in ancient times, removed themselves from everyday reality, like Saint Simeon Stylites, a Christian ascetic who lived on a tiny platform on top of a pillar in Aleppo, Syria for 37 years in the 5th century AD.