Another political fiasco in the news and another torrent of letters to our local newspaper. The opinions expressed were damning too, for and against, and the letters ran to two pages. How angry people get when it comes to politics. Politicians infuriate and exasperate me too. I can’t stand their waffling on without answering the [...]
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A 4-part series on TV has been tracing the almost insurmountable difficulties of a choirmaster putting a choir together out of school boys who think singing is for girls. Their school hasn’t had any singing for 30 years, and only 2 boys out of 1200 are in choirs already. The choirmaster is starting from scratch. [...]
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I remember reading about a Catholic who drifted away from the church and lost interest in religion all together. But one day she was passing a Catholic cathedral, walked in when the organ was playing, and she burst into tears. It really surprised her, how intense her emotions were after [...]
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I was listening to a marriage counsellor on TV talking about 7 points all couples need to do to keep their marriage humming. It was all the usual kindergarten stuff for an old wizened, battle-scarred marriage veteran like me, but I admit one point hit me. She was rattling on about understanding each other’s “love [...]
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I wondered, as I stood waiting to cross the road, what would happen instead if I kept walking. To keep walking would mean arriving at my car a few seconds earlier and different things, therefore, would happen on my journey home. Would those things be better for my life or worse? Would I be in [...]
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Some people have amazing faces. Like the face of the little girl with huge, haunting eyes that stared at me from a photo in a store window I was passing. So many emotions in so young a face – innocent and wistful, but that tragic hint of sadness, loss and hardship, too. How [...]
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I have a funeral to do today, and I always get nervous doing funerals because all eyes, if only briefly, are on me. And for what, pray tell? For a message that tries to make sense of death. There is no sense in death, though. Here’s a person who’s lived [...]
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