Love, strength and courage ~ The greatest things you’ll ever learn
Every now and again I post a status message on Facebook that generates a comment storm. And every now and again, that comment storm generates ideas good enough for a blog post, as it did with The Tao of Love and Light: Riffing on physics and faith. Yesterday morning I posted the following couplet as [...]
Amazing Grace comes in small packages ~ Rhema Marvanne
‘Grace’ is among my favourite words. There is divinity in it, and poise, as there is in this little girl’s voice, and in her being. Rhema Marvanne is, apparently, all of 7 years old. An age of innocence, so there should be no surprise there’s not a hint of wretchedness in the performance. But whence [...]
ANZAC Day: Lest we forget
ANZAC Day falls on the 25th of April every year. It’s a day in which Australians and New Zealanders commemorate and pay homage to those who served the nation in wars in our history. The day is marked by dawn services and marches in towns and cities throughout the land. It’s a day of sombre [...]
Teach Your Children Well ~ A Manifesto
A friend of mine teaches music from her home and had this to say about how she goes about the task. I teach with all I have. It’s a promise I made to the little girl I used to be… that the children who come to my door would be protected, guided, loved, inspired, and [...]
3 Things I Learned About Rejection By Being Accepted ~ A Traveller’s Tale
This post is an expansion of a comment I made on Daryl Sedore’s article, Why Rejection Letters are Great appearing on Write to Done. Sedore reminds us that in all endeavours we can expect to be rejected one or more times before being accepted. Every rejection is a good thing; we should look at each [...]
Take It Easy ~ Zen and the Art of Simplicity
I like to make things complex. Do you? I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I see so much complexity. Look at this blog, for example. There are six ways to Sunday to identify a single article. This post will appear in the Music, Pop and Rock categories. There’s a country music inflection to “Take [...]
The Dao de Jing ~ The transformational quality of seeing the beauty in all things.
I can’t remember when I first encountered The Dao de Jing (also Tao te Ching, pronounced the same), which surprises me since it quickly grew to become my favourite written text. It’s brief (just 81 chapters of verse, a page or so each) yet richly nuanced. I’ve read all or parts of it dozens of [...]
Annie’s Song ~ Notes on observing the sacraments of a sacred life
John Denver was a gentle, loving soul of considerable talent and purpose. He sang with heartfelt clarity and graceful gravity, qualities his music often reflected. Annie’s Song is ostensibly a love song, John Denver singing a poetic list of metaphors for how grand the experience of loving a woman is, and being loved by her. [...]
Bladerunner ~ do androids weep electric tears?
Bladerunner is among my favourite films of all time. In a veritable symphony of cinematic elements — cinematography, script, production design, soundtrack, direction, acting — it doesn’t miss a note. The film touches on all the major themes of the human condition: love, death, good and evil, redemption, justice, ethics, greed, passion. It’s philosophically spiritual [...]
The Fool’s day in April
April is my month of the extraordinary. In April 1991, I took the first job I was offered after having been unceremoniously fired by my previous employer. A year later, I’d had enough of the computing industry and was poised to quit that job…when Microsoft bought the company I was working for and made me [...]
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