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Tea in a beaker

I have to confess that I did take this photo for the purposes of pinning it to Pinterest (of which I am heartly obsessed with) but isn’t it such a brilliant idea. Tea in a scientific beaker. Photo taken at the Firehouse, Ringwood. Sadly I had a weird reaction to the avocado (I think) in [...]

This post is not the mail

Post Facebook Lent. oddly, now that I am ‘back to normal’ I have finally found a wee bit of headspace to think. it is remarkable when you rediscover that ability. To think. I did need the space. Lent. However the time was so full of other ‘must dos’ and now that is over and finally [...]

Performance Poetry

*These are thoughts post Soul Survivor, the monster that appears in the first act is holding a big long page of disclaimers, but truly – let’s pay attention to reality: I will just say what I think. Act 1 And whomph, the tiredness monster fly past and knocks me over and I can only sit. [...]

6: Break away

We ought not to think of building holiness upon action, we ought to build it upon a way of being. For it is not what we do that makes us holy, but we ought to make holy what we do. Meister Eckhart This year is the first time I have ‘actioned’ Lent. I have let [...]

Being told otherwise

It’s interesting the whole ‘listening to God’ thing. We talk about it a lot with Soul Survivor. It’s something I find both easy but difficult. Things tend to wriggle their way at me terribly abstractly. It appears I listen better when I have a couple of things to connect the dots. The other night Geoff [...]