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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Photograph by Kiwanja
There’s an Incredible Hulk in all of us. Our anger bursts out and transforms us. Sometimes it’s directed outwards, and we leave a trail of destruction in our wake as we storm along (turning green is optional!). Or it can be directed inwards, choking us on its ash.
For some personalities, anger lies behind […]
Sunday Collection: Earth Day
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
This week saw the annual Earth Day, during which we reflected on the earth and what we are doing to her. I was especially heartened to see from the religious outreach programme that 12,000 faith initiatives related to the environment took place in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities.
Mel at Beansprouts gave us some other […]
Sunday Collection: International Women’s Day
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Photograph by Babasteve
Because yesterday was International Women’s Day, it was easy for me to decide on the theme of today’s collection.
Those of you around my vintage will remember the second-wave feminist movement that began in the 1960s. We read classic polemics such as Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Greer’s The Female Eunuch, we attended consciousness-raising […]
Sunday Collection: Luurve
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Well it seems entirely appropriate, in the week of Valentine’s Day, that this collection is about love.
My first link is to a reel life marridj propsl in I Can Has Cheezburger.
Those of you who are not enchanted with Lolcats will have no idea what I’m talking about, but Cheezburger is one of my guilty blog-reading […]
Sunday Collection: Videos
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008I’ve been suffering with a bad cold the past few days, so I’m afraid my blog writing and reading has suffered along with me.
So this Sunday’s Collection will be light on words. Which may be a relief to all of you!
I’ve noticed several powerful videos surfacing this past couple of weeks (what did we do […]
Sunday Collection: Photography
Sunday, January 27th, 2008My father (left) was a professional photographer before and during WWII, and taught me to appreciate photography as art, so that’s what this Sunday’s collection is about.
I’ll digress for a moment and tell you a funny story about him. He used to photograph society balls - you know, back when debutantes were presented at court […]
Sunday Collection: Blogging
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Mostly this business of blogging is invisible. It’s the vehicle through which we talk to each other. This week I’ve collected a few posts about the vehicle itself.
Tamarika at Mining Nuggets shared the following quote from Citizen of the Month - I think it’s fantastic:
The fascinating part of [blogging] is that I can write about […]
Sunday Collection: Prayer
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Let my prayer arise before you like incense
The raising of my hands like an evening oblation
From Psalm 140
Normally with these collections, I look back on Saturday at what has struck me during the week, decide on a theme then start writing.
This week, I knew as soon as I read Jen Lemen on Tuesday that […]