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Ideas From the North: Boxing Day Poem
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Monday, December 26, 2011. A brief scan of Wikipedia to find out about the origins of Boxing Day. Led me to this interesting tidbit:. Interested by this, I decided to write a poem about Samuel Pepys and his family Christmas. It's quite silly but I feel like the seriousness of my posts of late warrant something a bit more ridiculous. Christmas with the Pepyses. From the Diary of Samuel Pepys, 19 December 1663). Whom he asked,. That ...
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Ideas From the North: Easter Saturday: Stop
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Saturday, April 7, 2012. Something that I find helpful to do during the Easter week is to think through the processes that those in the story would have gone through. So Friday, for instance, would. Have been a day of mourning, even though we now know what they didn't - that Jesus rose again on the Sunday. But what about Easter Saturday? What exactly happened then. What, I wonder, did Peter do that day? And this is also why Easter ...
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Ideas From the North: May 2012
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Saturday, May 26, 2012. It's book spine poem time. Having recently declared my own leave of absence from this blog, I am now breaking the "temporary silence" I decreed in honour of my friend Erin, who got me onto this fun little thing to do when you feel like doing something, you know, fun. Winter indoor activity #1: Book spine poetry. The rules are simple. Create a book spine poem (examples here. Post it on your blog. One of the b...
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Ideas From the North: No offence intended?
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Friday, December 24, 2010. I read these words by the wonderful N.T. Wright recently and they seemed appropriate to put out into the webosphere on this fine, sunny Christmas Eve:. I was once preaching at a big Christmas service where a well-known historian, famous for his scepticism towards Christianity, had been persuaded to attend by his family. Afterwards, he approached me, all smiles. I asked. 'Do tell me.'. More than 95 theses.
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Ideas From the North: June 2012
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Saturday, June 9, 2012. Farewell, Ray's Summer. I first heard of Bradbury when my brother watched Truffaut's film of Fahrenheit 451. In class. He was about 11 and I was about 8 at the time. It would not be until I was at University that I would actually read Bradbury, first picking up a copy of Dandelion Wine. In the Carlton library in 2005 and being instantly entranced by its opening lines:. Which my edition does not contain, I re...
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Ideas From the North: April 2012
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Saturday, April 28, 2012. The Swelling Year: Watch this space. Having finished my Lent Poems project and finding the challenge of regular, disciplined writing to be of great value, I am now embarking on a more serious challenge, one which will take me a bit over a year to complete. You can read about it here at The Consolations of Writing. A Year of Writing Liturgically: a project in the making. Saturday, April 21, 2012. Have been ...
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Ideas From the North: Love, love is a verb
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Sunday, November 4, 2007. Love, love is a verb. If you had asked me a few years ago what was the greatest album ever recorded, I would have said, without a moment's hesitation, "Mezzanine" by Massive Attack. And if you had then asked what was the greatest song, I would have said "Teardrop" off the same album. Is this really a love song? It's not so clear. If it is, it's not a happy one; hence the crying into the "fire of confes...
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Ideas From the North: Miracle on the River Kwai
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Tuesday, February 8, 2011. Miracle on the River Kwai. Two sick days this week have allowed me to watch David Lean's WWII epic, "The Bridge on the River Kwai". Yes, I had to watch it in two sittings, mostly because I was too tired yesterday to sit through all nearly-three-hours of it. But it was worth the effort. Films like that are considered classics for good reason. Can I juѕt ѕay whаt a relіef to find а perѕon. What I learned as...
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Ideas From the North: It's book spine poem time...
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Ideas From the North. The Consolations of Writing: Essays, Reflections a. Saturday, May 26, 2012. It's book spine poem time. Having recently declared my own leave of absence from this blog, I am now breaking the "temporary silence" I decreed in honour of my friend Erin, who got me onto this fun little thing to do when you feel like doing something, you know, fun. Winter indoor activity #1: Book spine poetry. The rules are simple. Create a book spine poem (examples here. Post it on your blog. If you had a...
