I was listening to the radio yesterday and there was a refugee talking about the asylum seeker situation, she said this: if your house is burning and the only way to escape is a rickety and broken ladder you are still going to use it. If only more people could hear this analogy.
All posts in category Culture
Burning Houses
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on April 10, 2012
http://allsaidanddone.com/2012/04/10/burning-houses/
Today I Change
I read this post by Christop today. One thing about giving away possessions is that it makes you more dependent on other people. Yesterday day, our car key broke in the car boot. An inconvenience at best, but Geoff was out a fair way from home, the RACV would’ve taken 3 hours. Back to one [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on February 13, 2012
http://allsaidanddone.com/2012/02/13/today-i-change/
Uganda
A shout out to my inlaws who have been living in Uganda for the last year… you can read what they have been up to. Paragraph alert! They are back in 5 weeks, hooray!
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on November 13, 2011
http://allsaidanddone.com/2011/11/13/uganda/
The myth of results
I’m terribly sorry to have stolen a whole whopper of a quote off Simon Moyle (and consequently Thomas Merton, oh whom I am rather a fan) but this is too valuable not to share. On February 15 Forest wrote that he was in a bleak mood; no one seemed to be listening to CPF (Catholic [...]
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on July 26, 2011
http://allsaidanddone.com/2011/07/26/the-myth-of-results/
Guess Who?
This is really somewhat random, but if you want to breathe new life into your Guess Who game (yes the one with flip up faces – Frans, Peter, Jill and such) pull it out and play it with stereotypes – with another adult. It’s amazing how well it works.
Posted by Rebecca Matheson on June 3, 2011
http://allsaidanddone.com/2011/06/03/guess-who-2/
