There are few days so cruel as mothers day A prayer of love for those who aren’t mothers. Today may you know all you are. A prayer of love for those who decided they wouldn’t be a mother because they dared not for fear they would replicate a world that tried to destroy them A…
Last night in a biological psych tutorial we studying magnetic fields produced by the brain. Every connection between neurons in the brain produces an electrical charge [that’s every thought, every learning, every choice, every memory]. That’s how we can do EEGs to see what’s happening in the brain. With every electrical charge comes a corresponding…
I was thinking about crises and catastrophes, while riding my bike into work this morning… Someone asked yesterday, in response to a thing I wrote for Crosslight about easter, why i would call myself a person of faith. I do so because it makes me live differently. Calling myself Christian gives me no choice about…
I ask for just one miracle this weekend: that I will no longer believe the impossible is. That I will find the faith to believe that liberation will come for those who are imprisoned by their own – or another’s – fear and judgement. That I will find the faith to believe that the most…
Registrations are now open for the UK 2013 Greenbelt + more trip. It’s slightly shorter than previous years; I’m pretty sure it’s going to be absolutely brilliant. I do hope you can come. The information and registration form is here: UK2013infobrochure
We live in borrowed time, says Lent. i have lived on borrowed truth for a while as well, and borrowed faith when necessary i know I have taken certainty from places that shouldn’t have given it to me and probably wouldn’t have, willingly. I have tried to make it my own. all of it. i…
Few things fill me with anticipation more than the return of Pádraig Ó Tuama at the end of February, for a 3 month poet-in-residence project with the CFM. He’ll be doing a mixture of in-house and public events – including this 3 day event in Hobart. I hope you can come… Download information here: breathingspace
We have waited so long surely forever. We have lived with the dissatisfaction of a world not right. We have railed at injustice and wept with impossible sadness at love’s failure. We have been angry, impatient, desperate fearful hopeful waiting for the time this will be different. Tonight we take a step of faith: we…
S J Culver writes about doing a tour of Alcatraz: The reasons for ignoring prisoners are easy to understand: they’ve had a hand, sometimes more, in their fate. As my mother will say to me later, at dinner, by way of indicating she’s had enough of this line of conversation: “Well, I don’t know, those…
