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For platypus_herder
When one is alone, one can accept an invitation to turn a meeting into meeting + dinner + swim, and thus a perfectly pleasant day into a memorable afternoon and evening of enjoyable conversation and relaxation with a bonus of a proper swim in a proper lake. Most excellent. -
A Priest
One more poem! Too relevant to my recent musings to not post. (Found on http://maggidawn.com/priest/ but posted elsewhere online too ( Read more... ) -
G20, or heartbroken
Watching the newscoverage and internet coverage of the G20 protests is breaking my heart ( Read more... ) -
Thoughts from the office
The daily office readings this morning hit a nerve, particularly the reading from Numbers (Numbers 16:36-50). Here are my somewhat jumbled reflections ( Read more... ) -
Rest and refreshment
I took the last 24 hours as a proper day off, with some help from some very kind friends. There was a delicious meal, good conversation, friendship, a fair bit of tv (I am now properly caught up on a few more shows...), and a day spent enjoying the city - a walk in the park, ice cream at my favourite place, window shopping, and a few short errands ( Read more... ) -
One is the loneliest number
If there's one emotion that has characterized the first few weeks of being ordained for me, it's loneliness ( Read more... ) -
Poems & thoughts
Ordination is on my mind, as I prepare for May 30th. My classmates are intelligent and kind, but they are also a lot of Presbyterian men who were almost all formed in some kind of evangelical tradition, and so there is a lot of misogyny flying around. It's been a challenging year for me on that front ( Read more... ) -
Yummy poetry
Trust by Thomas R. Smith ( Read more... ) -
A quote
"To believe in God is to believe that there is meaning to be discovered in what is observed, explored and hypothesised. It is to believe that truth, beauty and meaning are not simply constructs of the human mind and imagination, but that they are descriptive of reality as it is in itself (perhaps as it is in the mind of God?). The created universe ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
In the last week or two, I've been more noticeably aware of my empty ring finger. I notice that it's bare, and each time I notice there's a small pang ... a small reminder that yes, that really happened, and yes, it's really over ( Read more... )