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 a meal, no booking, which [...]
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 Wesley Music Centre in Canberra, [...]
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 significant impact; books you love. [...]
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 week. I spent quite some [...]
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 before that. As I sat [...]
On being overwhelmed and seizing opportunity
The current situation of lock down, social distancing, covid19 precautions, is overwhelming, isn't it? I am finding it too much to be on social media, for all the articles and opinions being shared. My [...]
