Sitemap - 2014 - something this foggy day

The Annunciation - a poem

Advent reading

Christmas decorating

Last time I was in a Lindt cafe

There blooms a rose in Bethlehem

Sehnsucht in LM Montgomery

Further musings on the mess of relationships

For reasons that are hidden from us

Sunday (on Monday)

Things that make us hang our head

The strangeness of faces

Coal Creek by Alex Miller

As through the veil

The Canberra report

St Saviour's Rose

The mess worth making - Part 4

Melbourne shopping haul

The mess worth making - Part 3

Logos - a poem

A first birthday!

A book club

The mess worth making, revisited

Davey's rug and other crochet projects

A flower show

Karen refugees

Self portrait

The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson

The time I had cancer

Love in hard times

Seinfeld on the keeping of books

A poem - If we stare too long

A painted winter evening

With beauty and goodness

Peace and quiet

A poem - The Other Half

Saturday - The symbol of hope

Thomas Cranmer and the vulning pelican

We cannot ultimately mess up our lives

Aristotle on friendship

Mr Keating on poetry

The white rose - Sophie Scholl

George Herbert on Beauty

That relationship will not 'complete you'

Saturday - a poem

Lo, a rose here growing

Red birds in winter

Forget me not

A song for freedom

My puzzlement with the world

Twelve Simple Hymns

Some Shakespeare for Saturday

Snow adventures

The question girls have answered by their father

A winter holiday

The peace in my troubled sea

Worn

Sunday - Endless Reserves

The pelican-in-her-piety again

A morning poem

The strangest Christian symbol ever

Previews of Lila

Ahem

A night at the Canberra Theatre

Saturday

I give up

What "no thanks" does to your brain

A long weekend ramble

The nephew models the latest crochet project

That gentle and quiet spirit thing

A little piece on homesickness

The Always and Forever Love

Friday - The lens of The Word

An olive-harvesting afternoon in the country

A life update

Autumn streets

Our wordless tearless dumbness of distress

A teenager's selfie

Some little things of beauty

A faint bleep

Paul Simon and Sting in concert

The Secret Scripture - a book

Flowers in the sun

One of the powers of jealousy

How to be a good friend

Friday - the nephew

On books and the Proustian incentive

The Apostle's Creed again

Sunday

The genes in my jeans

Sunday

The Marriage Plot

Shame interrupted

A family birthday

Friday

The old steriliser unveiling

The Philosophers' Mail

Friday

Public holiday music - From this Valley

Saturday - on art and hope and beauty and idealisation

Struggling with Singleness

Friday - A Poem

The nephew, post surgery

A Steadfast Heart

The surgery is over

The ballad they will sing in the streets

A further update

The nephew update

Saturday (and more from Narnia)

A Friday post - revisiting Narnia