Category Archives: From the basement

I’ve written lots of things over the last few years, some I think are worth reading again. Search through the old boxes and see what’s down here.

Holy Week

Sometimes it’s easy to forget Easter, I’ve found that especially over the last two years when I’ve been working and Easter has seemed little more than a refreshing long weekend in the midst of the slog. This year we’ve made … Continue reading

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a new room

This weekend we reclaimed a weekend from our planned lives and schedules. We postponed a weekend where we needed to be awake and exchanged it for one where we didn’t. So we did this on Saturday: We also bought a … Continue reading

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Lesson no. 568

When beating oneself up with a large stick for being generally useless, ugly, stupid and sinful, God doesn’t join in. He lovingly takes the stick from us, snaps it over his knee, wraps his arms around us and tells us … Continue reading

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Douglas strikes again.

I can’t read a Douglas Coupland novel without the need to paste quotes from it everywhere, well maybe with the exception of “All families are psychotic”.  His latest is called Generation A, 19 years on from Generation X it’s a … Continue reading

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Saturday night

One husbandface, one Binface, one bottle of wine, two guitars, one box drum.  Singing, playing, hitting and ending up with some quality glee 🙂

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