As we all know, this week is the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. I remember clearly when it happened. I don’t recall any sense of the gravity or amazing-ness of it all: as i understood it then, of course walls came down – that was what we marched / fought / protested…
I seem to have this thing for maps recently. I’ve noticed over the last few years that there’s almost always an underlying theme that shapes my thinking: water was it for a while; maps, or a sense of ‘this place’ seems to be it now. My head is overflowing with ideas about knowing where we…
I’ve been writing an article today for the Journal for the Jewish Museum of Australia [it’s a long story why, and a very lovely honour!]. It’s on my perception of the place of Biblical stories of women in the Christian tradition… I’ll put the article up when it’s published, but i didn’t want to forget…
from hugh macleod
It would be lovely to do a blog post on each of these things, but in the absence of focus – and because what I think really doesn’t matter [read point 9] – this will do instead. My friend Maryanne keeps texting me when she’s on her way home from work, driving past the Retreat…
I’m reading [and re-reading!] Bernard Schlink’s Guilt about the past at the moment. It’s seriously good. If you’ve read or seen The Reader, this is an exploration of the theoretical underpinnings to the novel. He writes about the intricacies of forgiveness, reconciliation and justice within the context of the Holocaust. The following quote has been…
i love the warnings at the top of disputed wikipedia pages: ‘The factual accuracy of part of this article is disputed.’ ‘The truthfulness of this article or section has been questioned.’ ‘This article or section appears to contradict itself’ We were talking about the future of this blog yesterday, and came across a wikipedia page…
i think this has a thousand possibilities…
in the meantime, the other idea we had for a winter solstice sacred space involved lots of knitting and mulled wine… i think this could be part of it… knitting our prayers for the world. i think it would work… see you next week.
‘The dichotomy between beauty and necessity has always been a false tension. Yet as a distraction, it has been extremely effective at crippling our power to bring full-bodied, earth-rending change. And those of us who are most intent on justice, those of us who are activists, and those of us who stand in the barrage…
