The word LENT comes from the old English word for SPRING, Lencten, and has to do with the long fast before the great feast of EASTER. Fasting was one of…
In this social media age it can be tempting to think that if it didn’t appear on Facebook or Instagram, or wasn’t shapchatted or tweeted then it didn’t happen! (more…)
One thing last week’s Inauguration of President Joe Biden will almost certainly be remembered for is the performance of a “skinny little black girl” reciting The Hill We Climb, her…
New life can appear in surprising places, even in something which I thought was totally dead. I’ve somehow made it through the first couple of weeks back at work after…
The Australian poet Michael Leunig quotes an old saying at the start of his book ‘A Common Prayer’: ‘Love is like bread, it has to be made fresh every day.’…
In Dennis O’Driscoll’s humorous poem, Non-Stop Christmas, “Christmas is always coming. There are only ever so many days still left”. Well, the shopping and the frenetic activity which have characterised…