I was recovering from a cold earlier this month. I had gone into work but discovered my body wasn’t ready to get back to it. Wilting fast, I drove to the doctors and ducked into a Malaysian place for lunch. I ordered and tried not to hack up a lung as I waited for the […]
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Watching Madam Butterfly on the harbour
It was a beautiful night. A warm night. A friend and I bought cheap-ish tickets to the Opera on the harbour. I left my husband and young son at home, and we saw fireworks and betrayal play out over the water. The giant orange ball was supposed to represent the rising sun. Alas for poor […]
Pretty flowers at my breakfast table
It was just a little posy. But it was pretty. For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday!
Tooting my own horn
I haven’t watched Nanette. I want to watch Nanette. I should watch Nanette. From the trailers, it seems like a soul-searing look at one woman’s story. Someone who is, in her own words, “gender not-normal”. “I don’t identify as transgender. But I’m clearly gender not-normal. I don’t think even lesbian is the right identity for […]
Taking care
Funny thing about a cold. It seems to change in severity depending on who gets it in our household. When my husband gets a cold, he often claims he is at death’s door. “I’m dying,” he splutters through a mountain of used tissues. “We’re all dying,” my son jokes. “Well, I’m dying faster,” his father […]
A giant woman floats through space
Potentiality for Love — Mahdollinen Rakkaus, by Eija-Liisa Ahtila. The installation by the Finnish artist questions the potential for empathy and love between living beings. Using LED modules, the artist creates a moving image of a woman who looks like she is floating through space. It’s a sketch of a distant memory; of a mother; […]
That writing prompt: Why do you write?
“Why do you write?” The writing prompt sat in my email inbox for a while. I looked at it and closed it. Looked at it again, and decided it was too hard to answer. I’m not sure why I write. Some famous writer once said there was nothing to it. You just had to sit […]
Sunrise over the Sydney Opera House
Taken on one of my early morning walks some time ago. For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday
More than reading, writing and arithmetic
My son is in his final year at primary school. He is a solid, average student. He isn’t the highest achiever in his class and has had some intensive academic support at school to keep him in the middle. His local public school is not as well resourced as the expensive private schools, but I […]
One
One giant painting of a man with a bird cage. Found on one of our walks around our neighbourhood. Taken on the phone and edited using Hipstamatic. Via the Daily Post Photo Challenge #11: One
What I’d say to a room full of pastors determined to preach the Gospel
Thank you. That’s what I’d say. It mustn’t be easy being in the hot seat. To feel the weight of responsibility to preach the Gospel. To make a public stand for God. Only to be torn down by Christians and non-Christians alike. In a world where there is opposition to the message of love and […]
Sydney CBD in the early morning
I cheated a little with “CBD”… Shot on the iPhone and edited with Hipstamatic. For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday!
