Posted in the weather, social sciences on Jun 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
Today has been full of death. On the radio, on the stage, on the teevee, and in the Bible. That’s where it started - in the beginning chapters of Leviticus. Sacrificial deaths as thanks and peace offerings. Then on the radio in a discussion on philosophy and the notion of an afterlife, an atheist’s near […]
Posted in social sciences, the arts on May 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
“Let us give thanks to librarians. When I was young and knuckleheaded, fighting against being poor, against being brown, against being an immigrant, against being rejected by my father, it was a librarian assigned to a tiny precinct in Central New Jersey who took the time out of her work and with care and arid […]
Posted in social sciences, god, faith & spirit on May 14th, 2008 11 Comments »
Cremation or burial? Urn or casket? These questions were posed last Sunday during a sermon that was largely about death and eternal life. It was suggested that in our society we don’t often talk about death, if at all. No disagreement here. Death raises a whole host of questions that most people would rather avoid […]
Posted in social sciences, family & friends on Apr 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Woke up this morning living happily on my own. How quickly things change! I have been thinking of getting another flatmate since Brother Peter left last October, but hadn’t done much about it, except use the second room as a holding area for junk. It’s 11 hours later, and I now have a flatmate - […]
Posted in social sciences, god, faith & spirit on Apr 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
There must have been 500 or more of us there this morning, including kids in slippers and dressing gowns. Most packed into the Memorial Hall and the rest of us, including me, spilling out across the footpath and onto the road. It was 5.00am, dark and damp, but not too cold. It was my first […]
Posted in the weather, social sciences on Mar 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Beware the Ides of March. Anyone who has read Julius Caesar will be familiar with that line. Apparently the Ides refers to the appearance of a full moon. Nothing foreboding in that - unless you’re Oz from Buffy. I know for a fact there was a crescent moon last night, so the Ides probably don’t […]
Posted in health & wellbeing, social sciences, work & study on Mar 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
I don’t like days like today, where I’m tired from not sleeping very well, and feeling jangly and out of sorts. Nothing in particular was wrong, I just felt off-key. So learning today that my work email writing style is a bit frosty cut deeper than it would if I was feeling more myself.
I thought […]