Sounds, Images, Words
It’s been a long day. Yesterday I was up at 5.30am and didn’t finish the day until 2am. Today I was out shooting just after 10am and didn’t get back to the hotel until nearly 10pm. Almost all of that time has been spent with the same group of people, from a small Hindu temple, [...] Read full article
This past week has been something out of the ordinary. I’m here in Adelaide, visiting family and tackling a number of personal projects. One of these, perhaps the most important of all, has been going through boxes and items I’ve had in storage since leaving Australia, nearly twelve years ago. I recall, as a child, [...] Read full article
There is an idea, attributed to Sigmund Freud, that life essentially consists of work and love. The absence of one or the other will always hold us back from being completely fulfilled. As long as we don’t define the words too narrowly, it is a sentiment I agree with. Love, in our culture, is often [...] Read full article
While reading Ralph Waldo Emerson this morning, the following lines made me pause, “I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods [...] Read full article
“When I (re)started blogging in 2004 my life was a mess. I was in a strange country, struggling with a career change and generally feeling as though everything I did kind of sucked, in a deep and fundamental way. My hope was that blogging would, somehow, help me improve as a writer and establish some [...] Read full article
Sunday’s post, on the direction of my faith and church life over the last decade attracted a number of comments, here on the blog and via other channels. Suffice it to say some folks were genuinely worried about my level of “happiness.” Whilst I appreciate that not being actively connected to a church and expressing [...] Read full article
After a busy end to 2009 I’ve only just started to reflect on the decade just passed, from 2000-2009. The public side of my faith underwent a big and obvious transition in those years. Not so much the “theology” bit, as the day to day and week to week reality of “church” life. Connected to [...] Read full article
Today I’m in the midst of unpacking and setting up for the first week of the new year. Part of that involves going through emails and unread blogposts sitting in my RSS reader. Of course, I don’t get around to reading all of the 1200 or so unread contributions sitting there. But, here are a [...] Read full article
You know those articles – the ones that give you lots of neat little suggestions to improve some are of your life – 25 ways to be a better parent, 5 ways to become a famous guitarist, or 10 ways to improve your love-life? Tips? Yeah, I hate those. Tips; not the money you leave [...] Read full article
Twitter is used in a lot of ways. One purpose I like is sharing quotes. I’ve always been, even from childhood, a fan of a good quote. I used to love thumbing through our family book of quotes and have dropped good quotes into essays, sermons, articles, blogposts and everyday conversation. Lately, I’ve even started [...] Read full article