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Reliable Love
Indeed, fully reliable love can only be the resurrected life of one who has died for the beloved ones. Contemporary society speaks much of 'unconditional' love, and is always disappointed. If I commit...
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Worn Leather
I have a leather satchel that's getting a little worse for wear. It's sitting here on the bench beside me. It goes with me. I wear jeans most days, and most of the pairs of jeans I have outlasted in...
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We’ve been misled on boat people: what does it mean for our leaders?
Julian Burnside published an opinion piece on Australian Asylum Seeker policy today in the Sydney Morning Herald. (Please read). It was clear and factual. It outlined an eminently reasonable and humane...
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Words Between Us
For Nat, turning 2. I. It seems to me that, given the course of things, years will come when words will be no obstacle but catching each others' meaning more than ever will elude. That's my intuition...
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An Essay on Lent
I. It's the time of year when we awake from the drowsy hedonism of summer and jump to our feet, only to glimpse our plans and projects getting away from us. The year is getting into swing. There is a...
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How a tree waits
Leaves don't fall. Not in any straightforward sense. You really get a sense of this if you watch widely, unfocus that point in the centre of your looking and gaze from the sides of your eyes. Delight...
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The Dancer
[For Nat, 3 years old] Morning for me is all about weight. I rise and balance myself on the precipitous edge of the bed, teetering there and staring down into the day, feeling the flesh take hold....
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Antenatal Classes
[a nativity poem in three trimesters] The First Trimester Miriam’s chromosome in courting spirals Embraces another, such an other — an unfathomable Y. All the junk, viral, evolutionary, specific,...
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How to have a baby at home
ACT 1: HOW TO PREPARE [Emma, rolling over in bed on the morning of May 14, 2015] "I think I'm having contractions" [Dan, calmly freaking out] "You think you are? You're not sure? This could all just be...
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