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Standing in front of my glass sliding doors facing my balcony I looked out over the view. I have always loved the urbanscape and now here it was right at my doorstep for me to look at any time I wanted to. I had recently moved into a tiny unit in the city – I […]
We got a dog because I thought my husband and I needed to learn something. I wasn’t sure what that was, but I said to my husband one day that I thought we would be better human beings if we had a dog. I think what I wanted was a way to be regularly in […]
SLOW WILDLIFE ON ROAD was such an odd sign to see in my inner-city neighbourhood. Someone had hand-written two signs on pieces of cardboard, placed fluorescent witches hats by their side, pasted a maple autumn leaf on each of the cardboards and voila! – a protective shield for the fauna in my backyard. I wondered […]
My eyes are wide open as though it’s daytime. Everything is dark, still and silent. All I can hear is my dog at the foot of the bed licking her paws. Our usually noisy street is quiet. I’d normally be grateful for the peace but lying on my bed, I find it unnerving at 3am. […]
Embracing The Strange. I try to copy the bird’s tune by whistling it. My dog looks up at me tilting its head. Every morning now for a week I hear the same little tune coming from a bird outside the bathroom window. The tune has four notes. If I knew more about music – four […]
The need for more good literature. My eyes glazed over a photo of four people in suits looking important. Even though I usually know better, my eyes turned to see how many “likes” the photo got – a lot. The quartet were representatives from a faith community. They conveyed a sense of importance, effectiveness and […]
About this winter season in our world. I watched the young woman trudge through the forest occasionally stopping to look at the camera and tell us things. She was strong, uncompromising and her eyes were small, black and piercing. “Hope?” she said “Hope is for the privileged. What matters is action.” She then went on […]
We’ve had a few deaths in the neighbourhood. And every time I heard about each death, my reaction was to draw my breath in, put my hand over my mouth and exclaim “Oh no”. Then tears welled up in my eyes. And a pause; silence. Each time I am surprised that one day the person […]
It feels like there is a sense of powerlessness in the air. Today in the face of overwhelming violence, madness and triviality a lot of people are either burying their heads in the sand or signing up to altruistic causes in an attempt to better our world. In my little bubble, both actions don’t seem […]
There is a scene in Wake up Dead Man, the third instalment of the Knives Out film series, when Jud the priest believes he has murdered someone. Except that he hasn’t. The scene is a stormy, dreary night when Jud peers into the darkness and sees a priest who he thought was dead, break out of the tomb where […]
Something that I’ll be exploring in the book about spirituality I’m currently writing, is the tension between the desire for and avoidance of transcendence in the West. On the one hand people are craving transcendence, meaning and enchantment, on the other, there is a rigid adherence to rationalism that shuts off from anything remotely spiritual. […]
And the most beautiful thing is that it teaches you without ever preaching. Authors of fiction books do not sit you down and say “Here are the ten most important lessons you need to take out of this book”. They give you a story and let you reckon with it in whichever way you want. […]
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