Category: life etc.
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JANUARY…
Oh January… you most auduous of days and weeks and month! It’s always a hard month with the hardest week of the year, the first week back at work coming off the most wonderful time of the year when the world takes a collective pause from the grind and goes full tilt into happiness mode.…
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Summering: 10 Things I’ve Loved About The Summer So Far…
Now that we are hurtling through to the end of the season, I’m loathed to see it go because this is one of the best summers I’ve had in a long time possibly since the pandemic and it did not involve getting on a plane. Now, whilst to see me chatting on social media is…
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THE VULNERABILITY OF OUR STARS
Dear Lewis, You are not useless. You are the Greatest Of All Time. A star that shines so bright, the world is bathed in your spark. You light up galaxies far, far away. You’re ours, Children who grew up with parents who worked three, four jobs to make ends meet and gave us the audacity…
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Our Theo
Oh Theo. If like me, you grew up in the 90s and your most formative memories are of a particular era, it most likely would revolve around The Cosby Show. For a lot of us there was very limited offering that represented a Black family like that on TV. Very few and what we got…
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Adolescence
It takes a village to raise a child they say, and Adolescence turns the lens on the village responsible for the child. In the weeks since the release of this series on Netflix we have had the government lauding the subject matter and even the Prime Minister going so far as to suggest the series…
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DEATH OF A POPE.
In the wake of the death of Pope Francis I, I want to visit the moment that, for me, was most telling of his Papacy and his alignment to synodality, a word that is often forgotten in the grandness of the office of the Papacy. He wanted to find the common ground on which we…
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LENT: NEGOTIATING WITH GOD
Every year lent rolls by and catches me by surprise when I should not be. I am that elaborate over-promiser who wants to give up everything and be holier than Mother Teresa. I want to probably go to a convent and live out the rest of lent until it is right at my door, and…
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Merci Madame Pelicot
I wrote this for the newsletter but also want it to live on the blog for those who do not subscribe… In the future, when we speak of Gisèle Pelicot, because we will, we always will, I hope it is with reverence and a sense of gratitude. I hope we accord her the respect she…
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HOPE IS MAKING A COMEBACK
This line from Michelle Obama’s speech at the DNC really resonated with me, of all the wonderful happenings at the convention, which I watched with much relish from my home in Sussex England, this line left me with a hum, that gentle resonant sound from satisfaction and a warm caress of the soul in a…