Stories for life
Madeline Martin's bookish heroines This Christmas, while looking for gifts for others, I found a novel that grabbed my attention, then went looking for more from the author. [...]
The gift of ‘sorry’
A promising start I was with my family – mum, my two sisters, their husbands, and my niece and two nephews. We rocked up at a pub for [...]
Sound Unseen
Wesley Music Scholars' New Pieces Program This weekend, I attended a concert given by our Wesley Music Scholars. This is a joint program of Wesley Uniting Church and [...]
Ten albums of impact
From time to time, friends tag each other on Facebook in ten day sharing sprees on a theme: black and white photo from your day; albums that had a [...]
We sense, we love, we learn, and thus we find the Sacred
Our minister in association, Bruce, invited us (Wesley Uniting, Canberra), to consider the various ways in which we nurture our connection to the Sacred, in his reflection this past [...]
On the freedom of solitude and shedding a skin of ‘shoulds’
As I sat down to write this, at 9pm on Saturday night, I had just finished watching A Quiet Passion for the first time. OK, I finished five minutes [...]
