Did Mary get stuck between Xmas and New Year?
I’m feeling a little blue We’re in the 2nd week of 2014 and I should have made and tossed at least a dozen New Year resolutions by now. But I’m stuck. I’m not ready for 2014. Not yet. 2013 was a good year The book got done and sold out. I know … I know … Continue reading
The Pope is gone, my mother-in-law is dead, but life goes on…
This week Pope Benedict 16th steps down, the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years. At the University of Tubingen in Germany, the theologian Hans Kung, author of the forthcoming “Can the Church Still Be Saved?” hopes for a new spring for a fading church. But in the Mekong Delta, in my husband’s family, life flows on uninterrupted like … Continue reading
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: The Best Season of Your Life
10th day of the 8th month of the dragon year – a busy buzzy sort of day running around delivering Mid-Autumn gifts to friends and associates. Something new this year, we’re distributing fresh fruits and flower teas, not the usual fatty cakes! Finally sitting down to my own cup of tea now and a quiet stare … Continue reading
Am I Really Doing the Best I Can?
Our Singapore morning paper is reporting that a whole lot of people are having sex on the side, sex for money, sex for grades. Conversation at a lot of my lunches these days centers around the delicious terrible depravity of some people whom whisper… whisper … we might know! BUT, It’s not depravity that drives me crazy; it’s the small pieces … Continue reading
Lunar New Year
It’s New Year again, the real one just after the stroke of midnight at the end of a Lunar New Year, when the moon’s disappeared to God knows where. This is when I step out, new clothes on (even to the underwear inside). When I breath in, New Year morning midnight air all around. And … Continue reading
If Dogs Can Say Grace…
My father has decided to say Grace after 50 years of not doing so. The reason he’s started again is a video someone sent him of dogs putting their paws together before chowing down. If dogs can do it, so can he! Everyone knows that dogs can be motivated to do almost anything for a … Continue reading
Reconciliation
It’s the end of the old year. A time to throw away old grudges and forgotten grievances, a time to make room for what will come in the new year. A time for reconciliation in the spirit of Nelson Mandela’s Rainbow Nation … Reconciliation Our bruises Red and purple Black and brown Forgotten Forgiven Forgiving We run … Continue reading
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