There is a scene in the recent film, BIRDMAN, where two of the characters engage in a game of truth or dare on a building rooftop in midtown Manhattan. Throughout the course of the dialogue, one of the characters chooses “truth” over “dare” without exception. …
Reflexive space
To venture into a totally unscientific description… if time is pushed forward, so to speak, by space expanding outward (accompanied by light, matter and energy), it seems curious that we as humans do tend to, as the Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard put it, understand life backwards*. …
CROWDS OF HEALING
Mark’s gospel reading about the healing of the paralytic is a busy reading with seemingly many different levels of engagement going on (Mark 2: 1-12). The story goes that, as Jesus returns home to Capernaum, crowds immediately gather around where he is staying. …
ANOTHER ADVENT CHILD
The season that calls us to be patient and vigilant, reflective and awake, peaceful and deliberate, gives us a child as a symbol of this season’s spirit. This is quite interesting given the observance of how short the attention span can be for a child! …
I Should Tell You…
…..I should tell you….
But you wouldn’t hear it as it was
Not because you didn’t want to
But because you can’t